Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tendency for economic assistance to become a battleground of the superpowers leads to emphasis of the spectacular over the useful--paving the streets of Kabul is better and more immediate propaganda, if poorer economics, than building a dam. Faced with a declaration of "war" in the economic field, the United States may either punish those who treat with the enemy or match the enemy's offers. But neither course is really practicable, for one smacks of "strings attached" aid and the other prevents any systematic long-range planning...
...these days the jukebox set is again on a crying jag: hangings, murders, deaths, burials and blighted loves are the subjects they want a man to sing about. And ever since Johnny Cash came out of the Arkansas delta, he has been singing about sorrow with spectacular success. In four years, half a hundred Cash-composed songs have sold more than 6,000,000 records. The biggest Cash hit, Walk the Line, passed the million mark with ease; the latest, Don't Take Your Guns to Town, is well on its way to repeating that performance...
...undergraduate today with 40 years ago, I think that he spends a larger part of the total day on studies and does a much better job. (Incidentally, census figures show a very large rise in the percentage of students on the labor market.) He is less interested in the spectacular sports and participates to a greater degree in sports. He is much more interested in the visual arts and, certainly as compared to the thirties' much less interested in politics. On the whole, I would say he makes better use of his time than a generation...
Mother sends him, at no little sacrifice, and he proves a spectacular student. Several years later he wins a scholarship to the university in Calcutta. He rushes home in tremendous excitement. "Mother, can I go?" And here begins the long, slow, exquisite resolution of the drama: the story of how the mother dies in order that Apu may live as he was meant to live. The mother gives and gives, the son takes and takes. The only thanks she gets are sulks, or at best indifference. Her heart bleeds, but she is wise enough to understand that in hurting...
...Crimson struck for two goals within a minute and a half near the end of the second period. In that period the saves of grad goalie Frank Cony were spectacular--and necessary--but two successive screen shots after the 14-minute mark by Dick Reilly and Bob Anderson put the varsity ahead to stay...