Word: ruralization
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...this academic melting pot. In his nearly 70 years he has taught economics at Columbia, Nebraska, Texas, Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, Yale. Much to the puzzlement of his more exotic colleagues, he remains in manner the Nebraska-born yokel. Slow-spoken, foot-shuffling, pipe-sucking, he is as crammed with rural lore as an October silo with corn. Johnson's happiest moments include working with his seven children in his Nyack, N. Y. garden...
...never been a 100% New Dealer, but he helped devise, draft and fight through many a major New Deal measure, notably Rural Electrification, the Securities Exchange Act, the Utility Holding Company Act. He has differed with New Deal strategists, but once Administration policy has been decided upon, he has, with but minor and rare exceptions, fought tooth & toenail to carry it through the House. He has been coldest to New Deal labor measures...
...OMEN - Lawrence Treaf -Duell, Sloan and Pearce ($2). The sudden death of a cook turns the rural week end of Psychologist Carl Wayward and his wife into a murder investigation that involves extrasensory perception, precognitive dreams, psychiatry and unadorned violence in its suspenseful course. Not altogether convincing, but notable for crispness and novelty...
Gloomy about the teacher shortage (TIME, March 29) was Columbia University's educational sociologist Willard W. Waller. For a generation after World War II, thought he, the U.S. might get even worse education than after World War I.-His facts: "More than 2,000 schools, mostly in rural areas, failed to open [last fall]. There was a shortage of at least 75,000 teachers in the nation at large . . . 2,000,000 children were receiving an education below the standards considered acceptable a year before. . . . Normal School enrollments have fallen off sharply, which is an indication that the shortage...
Satirist John Phillips Marquand, who told off the foibles and failings of New England in The Late George Apley, Wickford Point and H. M. Pulham, Esquire, herewith tells off Manhattan and its intellectual suburbs, rural Connecticut and Hollywood, in 595 pages. Almost all of them are interesting, a few quite funny, and one or two as profound as Marquand is ever likely to write. The Book-of-the Month Club, which receives three or four puffs in the course of the novel, made So Little Time its September selection...