Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...McMurry is convinced that U.S. industry generally gives its workers material benefits in such bounty as to leave little cause for complaint. Why, then, do so many workers turn against management and rush to join unions which often make punitive demands on management? Using the Freudian "psychodynamic" approach, Dr. McMurry holds that today's adult "is not nearly so far removed from childhood as people think ... In an increasingly complex socio-economy, we are dealing with selfish, dependent, hedonistic, wishful-thinking, amoral and quite immature individuals, emotionally like a child of four...
...beautifully sustains it. It can be notably funny in a Tarkington-like way, yet it remembers and records the balked, anarchic feelings, the tremulous tragicomedy of ending childhood. Unfortunately, it suffers after a while from being so much less a play than a mere picture of people. It would make an ideal long one-acter. As it stands, the second act repeats the mood of the first with somewhat diminished success, and the choppy third act resorts to melodrama with no success...
...like parents," he began, "who do not make unreasonable demands upon us." They decidedly do not include the parents who once told him, "Johnny is a very sensitive boy. If he misbehaves, please spank the boy next to him"; or the one who "wanted to know what the school intended to do about her child's studying with the radio going." They do include "parents who make possible for their children quiet, concentrated study . . . It means radios and television sets...
...report to make U.S. college and university fund raisers sit up with a snap. Education Professor Clara P. McMahon of the Johns Hopkins University had done a little digging in 15th Century fund-raising tactics at Oxford, found 20th Century techniques "pale in comparison." In an article in School and Society she told how it used to be done...
...Fosters had had a good life together. Don got a high-school education, worked for 15 years as a San Francisco newspaper man, served in the Navy during both world wars, always managed to make a comfortable living. Recently, while he held down a $5,200-a-year job on the State Board of Equalization, he and May also operated a "Hobby Center," which last year grossed $56,000. But for a couple of decades, quietly devout Donald Foster has been thinking that he would like the cloistered seclusion of a monk's life. "The more I thought about...