Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beat the Enemy. Spotted as an administrator by M.I.T.'s late President Karl T. Compton, he was appointed M.I.T.'s assistant to the president (1939), executive vice president (1943) and vice president (1945) during the World War 11 years in which M.I.T.'s staff of scientists and engineers rose from 700 to more than 6,000. In 1948, when Compton resigned to become chairman of Washington's National Research and Development Board, Killian was named to succeed him. "We must continue," he said at his 1949 inauguration, "to muster the democratic ranks of American scientists into...
...take on any untried creative artists, the young prefer to read what the New Critics have to say about the artists of yesterday. Mailer and Jones have had their brief fling, such as it was. Colin Wilson never achieved any vogue at all. There is no cult of the "beat generation," and the San Francisco literary renaissance has scarcely begun to penetrate the ivy. "Maybe," wrote Princeton's Carlos Baker recently, "this is the Age of Consolidation . . . [Students] are too busy reading and thinking about older thinkers and writers to pay extensive heed to the newest ones...
...Oued, a kind of Disunited Nations where Spaniards, Italians, Maltese and French mix it up with Moslem natives. Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi-bel-Abbes. Former Bantamweight Champ Robert Cohen beat his way out of Bone in Algeria. French Featherweight Champion Cherif Hamia hails from Guergnon, another swarming Algerian town...
...became a boxer. As an amateur, he was champion of France in 1953, '54 and '55. When he turned pro in 1955, he went back to Algeria to begin his career. Along with every other fighter who preferred to do his scrapping with his fists, he beat it out to France again when the nationalist rebellion closed North Africa's prizefight palaces. He lost only one of 21 bouts on his way to the title...
...Princeton students seemed inclined to support the chief. One boy remarked that he "wouldn't be surprised" if Princeton players had actually perpetrated the deed. He said several of the players he knew had "definite sadistic tendencies" and added that "they've probably done a lot worse things than beat up a townie...