Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parrot the old story . . . about "trouble" that Collier's had with a football article in 1941 . . . I tilted at the hypocrisy of college football . . . [using] the University of Alabama as the case in point . . . Collier's conceded two insignificant errors, not in the basic facts, but in the dramatic trimmings. I conceded nothing...
...first charge to be answered was whether anybody had benefited personally or politically by the choice of the B-36 (TIME, June 6). In a letter he delivered personally to Chairman Vinson, Air Secretary Stuart Symington categorically denied this "basic innuendo." Every airplane the Air Force had ordered, wrote Symington, and every step in the B-36 program had been approved by the nation's top air commanders. At no time had "any higher authority attempted to recommend in any way the purchase of any airplane." As to reports that his own efforts in behalf...
...plot involves nothing basic that is not foreseeable in the first two reels. The script, however, has one pleasant surprise. Every now & then, Miss Lamour comes out with a roundly turned, neatly delivered snap of U.S. gutter slang which fleetingly suggests what might have been made of this story with more imagination...
...Academic freedom," then, is not simply the name of an incident involving instructor This or Professor That. As the publication of year report proves, academic freedom is a basic principle which concerns all members of a college or university, and concerns them directly. Walter B. Rideout. Teching Follow in English
Pulp trash you say. But this is not entirely true. Wylie is consistently entertaining and his basic point that modern civilization completely ignores the instinctual nature of man (by building up a great taboo structure around sex relations, for example) is well taken. The various diatribes in which he elaborates on this central this are mostly accurate and uniformly provocative...