Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other-directed statistician-turned-sociologist slipped in through the woodwork last night with a message between his two chiseled teeth: Albert Guerard's Politburo of Comp Lit 166 favorites was re-elected almost unanimously. Topping the psychological ten, two years running, was Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Other perennial repeats included Lord Jim, The Power and the Glory, Death in Venice, and The Immoralist. The Devils replaced The Plague, which was dropped from the course...
...floor leader must always know how the House is leaning on the issues that come before it. To help him, McCormack can always call on the Democratic whip, Oklahoma's Carl Albert, who, with his 15 assistants, can come up with a quick nose count in 24 hours, a firm figure within a week. (In 1955 the whip count indicated reciprocal trade would win by a single vote on the key roll call; the actual count...
...have expended precious technical thought on scientific educational equipment." The U.S. makes nothing like the classroom wave-motion machine, and an American-made projector that costs Harvard $300 serves the purpose no better than a Russian model that costs $24.50 (plus 40% duty) delivered in New York. Adds Dr. Albert Navez, whose high school program in Newton, Mass, last year turned out both winners of the Westinghouse Science Talent Search (TIME, March 17): "It's a little bit fantastic, after we've been told their equipment is so rudimentary, to find this remarkable stuff...
...changes those years have wrought in American painting were made dramatically clear by the shows. In Manhattan, the standout exhibits were Seth Eastman's Lacrosse Playing Among the Sioux Indians and Albert Bierstadt's The Last of the Buffalo -both brown, spacious, romantic and unabashedly illustrative. The Washington show was long on flat, bright abstractions that would have meant no more to Eastman and Bierstadt than so many Indian blankets. First prize of $2.000 and a gold medal went to Walter Plate, 33, for Hot House, a big, lush bouquet of thick colors, which thus became the Corcoran...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). Another in the series of dissertations on the greatest minds. Subject: Albert Einstein, author of the plot (E = mc2) that was the most dramatic of them...