Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The only score card at Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds last week was the Bible. Speakers' platforms disguised the diamonds; flower banks decked the pitching mounds; burlap mountains, artificial waterfalls hid second and third bases. New York had never seen a convention so big; even Billy Graham'...
But the real villains for the convention were the leaders of organized Christianity. "They are most responsible for world conditions," declared Vice President Fred W. Franz. He even specified which churchmen are most responsible by virtue of supporting the U.N.-Pope Pius XII (or "the pope of Vatican City" as...
"Now you too can play the guitar. Just turn the dial and strum. No fingering necessary . . . You can go on TV with your own guitar and your own entertainment." This invitation to the arts is part of an advertisement for the Dial-A-Chord, a $12 gadget that enables a...
A number of years ago Yale instituted its Scholar of the House program, in which a few high-ranking students study completely on their own during the senior year. Last year Dartmouth instituted a three-semester program which would allow students to take more courses and give them the feeling...
Last week, at its annual convention in Washington, the American Osteopathic Association (representing the nation's 13,000 doctors of osteopathy) booted Still's bones out of its constitution, went medically more orthodox. Its constitution had formerly included this paean: "The evolution of osteopathic principles shall be an...