Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...league suit ... to prefer American cars, for any reason, to European; to believe that there may be any justice in the official position on Oppenheimer; to defend Western diplomacy on my basis; to invite company to dinner without candles on the table and without chamber music in the background; to criticize Arthur Miller or Tennessee Williams as playwrights or otherwise ... to like Tschaikovsky or Irving Berlin, or to dislike Leonard Bernstein or Mozart; to express admiration for Marilyn Monroe or any other American movie star; to disparage Alec Guinness...
NORTHWESTERN. "You're in medicine for the rest of your life," says Medical School Dean Dr. Richard H. Young. "The broader scholastic background a man has before he enters medical school, therefore, the better...
JOHNS HOPKINS. Dr. Thomas B. Turner, dean of the medical faculty: "I cannot candidly say that liberal arts in any sense outweigh science. We want both in our entering students: a background that is broad culturally and a preparation in basic science, specifically chemistry, biology and mathematics. The old unconcern for liberal arts has vanished. We want a man to be intellectually mature, and we recognize that he cannot attain that status taking nothing but science courses...
...into another holiday favorite: "Dashing through the snow in a 50-foot coupe." They stop to admire a cigarette-ad Santa Claus with a tattoo on each arm-one reading "Merry Christmas," the other "Less Tar"-and then jangle through Jingle Bells with a cash register clanking in the background...
...King (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955) has the level, grey-blue eyes and careless forelock of his uncle, whose picture hangs behind his blacktopped desk. But the two men are fundamentally different: the mercurial Northcliffe had a sure instinct for mesmerizing the masses; King is an intellectual with good background (Winchester, Oxford), who had to acquire the tricks of peddling blood, bosoms and ballyhoo. Says he: "If I produced the sort of paper I really wanted to read, no one else would want...