Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...some logs by a foot bridge when we saw a Korean walking toward us. Since he was well-dressed we collared him and told him to round up some substantial citizens." The well-dressed Korean turned out to be an innkeeper who promptly rounded up a collection of high-school teachers and minor county officials...
Toward Hot Water. The man who would replace Sir Stafford Cripps wore the same school tie (Winchester). Hugh Gaitskell, 44, is 17 years younger than Cripps and in many respects different. He is neither vegetarian nor teetotaler. While Cripps appears unyielding, Gaitskell is modest, unassuming and courteous...
...show, the influential Paris weekly, Les Arts, guessed that "A hundred years from now, Gromaire will be considered one of the most representative painters of our period." That was faint praise, yet fair enough. Gromaire's art says little that has not been better expressed by older School-of-Paris artists-among them his two favorites, Bonnard and Matisse. But in a field crammed with slapdash imitations of the masters, Gromaire's paintings have an honest, craftsmanlike, and sometimes compelling ring...
...years, the Gluecks have been following Bernard's advice. Today, Glueck (rhymes with look) is Harvard Law School's top professor of criminal law, and, with his wife, has become one of the nation's most dogged diggers into the nature of crime and criminals. Two of their studies, 500 Criminal Careers and 1,000 Juvenile Delinquents, have become near-classics. Last week the Gluecks published another: Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency (Commonwealth Fund...
...what makes some boys go bad. The best way to find out, they decided, was to compare 500 delinquent boys with 500 non-delinquents of equal intelligence and similar economic backgrounds. With the assistance of doctors and psychologists, they subjected the boys to physical examinations, studied their homes and school records, questioned parents and teachers, gave their subjects batteries of tests. By the end of their study they had produced no rule-of-thumb cures, but they had worked out an impressive statistical blueprint for spotting danger signals...