Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speakers' platforms are gimmicked up to catch both festival and brawl. A teleprompter will be rigged alongside special air-blowers designed to keep speakers cool under the TV glare, and a built-in elevator at the rostrum is being installed to adjust the speakers' height to the cameras (which are hard to move, what with delegates about). Instead of rows of dignitaries clogging the platform, only a few committeemen and VIPs will be onstage-against a bare backdrop. ¶ Republican Bertha Adkins, assistant to Chairman Leonard Hall, is handing out TV-inspired advice to the ladies: no large...
Meanwhile, other men of ideas found other banners to rally around. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr condemned the liberal reformers for having ignored the fact of original sin, and declared that man's destiny is to "seek after an impossible victory and to adjust himself to an inevitable defeat." In his The Public Philosophy, Journalist Walter Lippmann denounced the "Jacobin heresy" of the modern democracies, which insists that the New Man will be born out of his emancipation from authority. What is needed, said Lippmann, is a return to the idea of natural law, for with the disappearance of this public...
...Self-Adjusting Camera. A movie camera that automatically adjusts its lens for variations in the amount of light was announced by Bell & Howell Co. A photoelectric cell like a standard light meter controls two small electric motors (powered by tiny batteries) that adjust the lens opening to prevailing light conditions. Price...
...wife who can adjust to the changing social and emotional demands of her husband's rise in business is not only a social asset but a personal one. Such a woman often strengthens her husband when he fears failure, acting as a 'sounding board' for him, helps him formulate his ambitions. She does not need to be an ex pert in his business; she does not even need to be very well-informed about it. But she does need some sophistication and understanding of the general world in which he and his associates operate...
...three, Junta definitely possesses the "biggest" game. His experience comes from many years of play on the Californian hard courts where the power service and crushing net game are of prime importance. However, he will have to adjust his game considerably for the collegiate clay court play...