Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government asked William Townsend of the University of Oklahoma's Summer Institute of Linguistics to head a mission to teach the Indians to read and write their own languages. Townsend, a friendly, energetic man who learned his first dialect (Cakchiquel) in 1917 trying to sell Bibles to the Indians of Guatemala, went to Peru in 1945 with eleven assistants. Before they could teach, Townsend and his teachers had to learn the local tongues themselves. Deciding to concentrate on the 18 most widely used dialects, they set off for the jungle...
...truly be a kind of Aladdin's lamp which will produce great riches for those who know how to rub it." But the rub, as Washington Waters is well aware, is knowing how. Waters knows. He is one of the few financial columnists in the world who can write about the stock market that way with real authority. By rubbing the lamp the right way himself, he has amassed a fortune of $20 million plus in stocks, gas and real estate. Last week Washington Waters cheerfully confirmed a suspicion of many brokers: he is John Fox, 46, who bought...
Although Do Not Forsake Me is Tiomkin's first popular hit, he has been writing movie music in Hollywood for 20 years (Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It With You, Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train, Red River, The Big Sky). But not until he worked on U.S. Army orientation films during World War II did he discover the real purpose of his craft. Says he: "I learn to write ... not just for concert but for screen, combine music with sound and dialogue. Sometimes you give a little help to film." But he adds with...
...hears the value of classical studies denounced by men whose understanding is obviously uncomplicated by any personal acquaintance with the classics. Emotional conditioning is held to be more important than intellectually acquired information-by persons whose private stocks of information come almost exclusively from the occupational texts which Educationists write for each other." Indeed, says Lynd, "placing these people as judges of the spiritual experiences of our children is like placing a temperance preacher in charge of a cellar of fine wines...
...books he savagely dissected early American capitalism-in a predatory era when Cornelius Vanderbilt could write to his associates: "Gentlemen, you have undertaken to ruin me. I will not sue you, for law takes too long. I will ruin you." Veblen took a closer look at the people Marx called the ruling class, and produced a new label: the leisure class. The businessman, to Veblen, was a saboteur of the economy, because instead of just sticking to making goods, he tried to regulate output in order to make more money. Eventually, thought Veblen, the engineers would inherit the world...