Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor Tinbergen-and upon you, too, TIME ! Do you not know that there are still extant a few of us anthropomorphic-minded souls who still clasp Uncle Remus and Ernest Thompson Seton to our bosoms? We prefer to believe, since birds do it and bees do it, that they (and the sticklebacks) feel romantic about what Professor Tinbergen insists is merely another dismal reflex...
...Communists are noisier than numerous. And they prefer, whenever possible, to have the shouting done for them by others and thus seem not only more respectable but larger than life. In Washington last week they gave a demonstration of this technique. Their target was the Mundt-Nixon bill...
...pull their pots, returning at dusk to sell their lobsters to the companies for ten pesos (30?) apiece. For the fishermen and their families, life in the Juan Fernández is monotonous and lonely, and the sea is full of danger. Even so, they say, they prefer it to the unknown risks of life "on the continent...
...fiction readers, the New York Times reported, now prefer Sexual Behavior in the Human Male to Peace of Mind...
...film has earned great acclaim in Europe. Those who prefer their movies with a nervous tempo and honeyed brightness will find it very slow and very dark. But Dreyer has used timing and lighting so artfully that his characters seldom have to speak and never waste a word; he has gone farther than most moviemakers towards solving the difficult problems of silent cinema in a talk-ridden era. Some of his close-ups are extraordinarily long, but they are brimming with substance: the subtle, beautifully acted modulations of deep moral anguish...