Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clearly unwilling to accept the notion that where there is smoke there is cancer. Although scientists keep on diligently assembling statistical data on the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, the American tobacco industry has bounced back from its 1953-54 slump, is puffing contentedly over big sales and expansion plans. See BUSINESS, Complete Recovery. One reason why Americans are smoking again more or less fearlessly is that they see safety in filters. Starting from practically nowhere, filter cigarettes have now taken over nearly a third of the U.S. cigarette output. Are the filters really any good? Scientists insist...
...Dunster Dunces recently received an offer to appear on a nationwide TV show, Name That Tune. Like the Band, Glee Club, Hasty Pudding, and numerous faculty members, they could not accept the offer because of a University rule which has remained all but invariable for over ten years. Adopted and periodically reaffirmed by a Corporation vote, the rule states that Harvard's name may not be used in connection with a radio or television show...
...would be in effect selling the name of Harvard to money-making hucksters and sellers of soap. In 1950, for example, the Monsanto Chemical Company offered the Glee Club $300 to sing on one of a series of shows featuring New England singing groups. The Glee Club could not accept the offer, because it was felt that $300 was an insulting bid from ad men who would make $30,000 from the show...
Were there any objections? Paper ballots were passed out forthwith to the politicians. Said Sukarno when the vote was tallied: "I am very happy and moved that a majority would accept appointment to an Emergency Cabinet post." Now he could get on with his promised introduction of what he calls "guided democracy," instead of the Western-style parliamentary democracy which had. admittedly, failed to govern the country effectively...
...pages of notes. What partly redeems the book is that it throws some light on one of America's great acting families, and that it documents for the amateur social anthropologist the squalor and sadness that lie behind a world which millions of Americans have come to accept as breathtakingly glamorous...