Word: things
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Homeowner Theodor Repsholdt, a high-school teacher. "I am a resident of Deerfield and teach your children American history," said he. "I'm a Lutheran and I'm in favor of an integrated community." Catcalls from the floor: "Resign! Fire him." Repsholdt squared his shoulders, continued: "One thing is fortunate. If there is any shortage more acute than the shortage in housing, it is the shortage of teachers. I'm not frightened about losing my job." Repsholdt got a big hand for his stand. But he did not roll back the angry majority, which, on a show...
...Diahann (pronounced Diane) Carroll has given a surprising amount of thought to what her public-private image should be. "The difficult, dangerous thing for a performer," she says, "is deciding, 'Just who am I?' It must come from living. What you are in life, you are onstage. Maybe a little less inhibited, but the same person." Daughter of a New York subway conductor, Diahann (born Carol Diahann Johnson) showed youthful musical talent, won a Metropolitan Opera scholarship at ten. "That lasted no more than a month," she says, "because I told my mother I wanted...
...criticisms of U.S. policy: "The Eisenhower Administration, while having a policy towards the world, has consistently lacked policies for particular parts of it. It has had an attitude, but not solutions-a diagnosis, but no remedies." In its attitude toward the cold war, the Economist is succinct: "The essential thing is for the West to stand by its own concept of the world it wants to make. The challenge will then be to the Russians...
...except leadership of Harvard; but what price leadership?" Muller inquired, nothing that "the art world moves fast and this sort of this sort of thing is dated as as created...
...most interesting thing about this place is its owner, Lou Catania. A poor-but-honest spaghetti-puller from the old country? Not on your life. He barbered his way through the (U.S.) depression, marrying the boss's daughter. Aften ten years as a railroad brakeman, he surrendered to hay fever (dust in the baggage car) and founded a chain of pizza parlors around Boston and the Cape. "Leaning Tower of Pizza," that inspired pun, brought him national interest and the attentions of a large noodle concern. The Prince Spaghetti Company settled on Tower like a great leaking blimp...