Word: type
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...refreshing to know that a national magazine of a non-professional type (educationally speaking) could give such a good description of the questions and problems of education today...
...result of this type of education ... is a high-school graduate anxious to criticize his city's garbage-disposal system but perhaps incapable of interpreting a city ordinance on the subject. Yet he will not for a moment doubt his own capabilities, for his intellect has never been really challenged...
...know of no Senator who has more generously used the Congressional Record and other governmental facilities to promote his publicity. If he has ever hidden his light under a bushel, I am not aware of it. I have not observed that he is of the shrinking-violet type...
...essence of the film is its humor, but this is not a boffo type of comedy. Instead, the humor comes from the normal actions of the people themselves. The Abbey Players have caught the underlying comedy in the lives of the poor but happy country folk-in the Irish superstitions nature an typical multitude of minor sins. These qualities appear in the blind faith of the townspeople in the ability of Ma Murnaghan to predict the future and their rush to bet all their money on her choice in the Irish National...
Felix:-Do you mean my residence or may place of employment? Felix, by this ridiculous use of formal language, not only gains a point over the questioner, but provides a satiric framework for his former official use of precisely the same type of phrase...