Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...developed a phenomenal memory, not only for what was in the books, but for the sound of people's voices. He learned to follow a conversation by shifting his eyes from one speaker to another, instead of turning an ear as blind people are apt to do. Hearing the Cellophane on a cigarette package crackle, he would have a light extended by the time the smoker was ready...
...Faith of Mohammed. Westerners are apt to call anyone a fanatic whose convictions are stronger and whose behavior is stranger than their own. To call Mossadeq a fanatic may be correct, but it explains almost nothing. Mossadeq is a far more complex character than the most baffling men the West has yet had to deal with, including misty yogis like Nehru and notably unmisty commissars like Joseph Stalin. The biggest single factor that makes Mossadeq different is a religion that the West knows little about: Islam. Mossadeq is not devout, rarely goes to a mosque. But at home...
Americans, in their open-faced optimism, are apt to believe that the basic assets for social success are good will, a pretty wife, and perhaps a few funny stories. Potter, product of an older and more cynical order, is convinced that all social intercourse is in fact a merciless jungle struggle, where the weaker will be gobbled up like an anchovy canape by the man with the firmer grip on the conversation and the Martini glass. In his scholarly The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship, or the Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948), Evolutionist Potter...
...stoical air appropriate to a necessary evil." Reactions differ considerably by class. The Upper Middles (12%), if they watch commercials at all, watch just to be critical. Middle Majority viewers (65%) are more sporting, will stay with commercials until they get bored. Lower Middle Class (23%) televiewers are apt to be most considerate. Because the advertiser pays for the program, they feel duty-bound to lend their eyes & ears to his sales message...
...exchange of learned letters last week on the niceties of biblical translating. One contributor, Steven T. Byington, took a stand against the practice, long common in printing the King James version, of italicizing all words not in the original texts. Byington's objection: the unpracticed reader is apt to infer emphasis where no emphasis is intended. For example, he said, take I Kings...