Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Phumiphon went home to Siam with his brother. Ananda, Siamese remember, was a strange young King. Full of Western ideas, he refused to talk to visitors who sat on the floor below _ him Siamese fashion, insisting that they sit on chairs level with himself. Since shyness is a Siamese characteristic, the visitors often found themselves unable to talk in such a presumptuous position; King and subject would sit in silence, both blushing. Siamese tell of Ananda's visits to little villages near Bangkok. He would summon up all his courage, walk up to an old woman and ask, "Grandmother...
...what chiefly upset Educator Hutchins was a radioman's suggestion that the low U.S. cultural level, if it is low, is primarily the fault of educators. Wrote Hutchins: "Even a perfect educational system would have a hard time setting up an effective cultural opposition to the storm of trash and propaganda that now beats upon the American from birth . . . Comic books and Betty Grable, the Lone Ranger and Milton Berle are the diet of our children." The only hope, Hutchins thinks, is subscription radio or heavily endowed university networks-neither of which seems likely. His gloomy conclusion...
Cautious Optimist. All in all, most U.S. businessmen shared the cautious optimism of Harvard's white-haired Economist Sumner H. Slichter. In Chicago last week, he predicted a high level of business through at least igso's third quarter. There might be "some further drop in production and employment," said Slichter, "[but] I do not believe that it will be severe or long." And while Slichter thought that Government and unions would wield still bigger power in shaping the economy, it would remain one "run, in the main, by tens of millions of consumers each buying what they...
...raise this picture from the level of the ordinary to that of greatness, the element of mental transition is emphasized. Posing as a peddler, Flynn makes love to Miss Smith. When she is completely enraptured he tells her that he is a sheep man. At first she rejects him; she can't understand him because he believes differently than she does. But at the end of the picture she realizes that she erred. It makes no difference who you are or what you are, she says, I love you anyhow. Flynn recovers from a bullet which felled him a minute...
Fifth place finishers in the regular A League season, the Bunnies couldn't seem to find their shooting eyes. Dave Belcher, Leverett's tall center, played well below his usual level of play, scoring only nine points...