Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...busy to hear complaints. Realizing his lack of popularity, Collins judiciously decided not to seek reelection, leaving the door open for White, who was bored with seven years in the undemanding job of Massachusetts secretary of state. As it was, the built-up resentment against Collins' planners and button-down administrators very nearly lost him the election. Though his Irish pedigree was impeccable, White was suspect in some parts of the city because of his Ivy education (Williams, '52) and cool manner, which sometimes makes him seem more Yankee than the Brahmins...
...substituted a new, one-dimensional Negro without reality." Rarely does a Negro portray the villain; the networks are fearful of being accused of racism. As a result, the black character in the average TV drama is likely to represent what Belafonte calls either "Super-Negro" or "a button-down Brooks Brothers eunuch...
...student started telling something about how the man had started the Bauhaus School in Germany and that was what everyone was studying now. When he looked up towards the speakers' platform, the kid grabbed a "Grope" button...
...Samuel Bogoch of Boston's Foundation for Research on the Nervous System taught pigeons to peck a particular button to get a kernel of corn from a machine. He found that the chemical brain reaction was not only the creation of new brain protein, but protein-sugar combinations (mucoids) as well. Until three years ago, said Dr. Bogoch, only 20% of the brain's proteins had been identified. This has now been raised to 60%, and those known are divided into 16 groups. Two of these groups show a marked, though brief, increase when a pigeon learns...
...with Viet Nam's political and military problems-knowledge that will serve him well in the negotiations. With his passion for precision and clarity, he is a superb administrator as well as a brilliant legal mind with a virtually encyclopedic memory. Vance characteristically dresses in dark suits, white button-down shirts and bold-striped ties. In 1947, he married Grace Elsie Sloane, daughter of John Sloane, former board chairman of Manhattan's W & J Sloane, the nation's oldest home-furnishing house. The Vances have five children...