Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time the people who were already in the city "find their own customs and way of life under the pressure of strangers they do not understand. They fear the threat to their own values. This is the fear that is reflected in the gradual creation of a stereotype of the Puerto Rican as criminal...
Through the forties, then the fifties, the Band expanded at a fast rate, cutting records, touring the country, giving campus concerts, but always supporting the football teams. Since the Band's creation, its main function has been to play at football games. Its members are faithful and enthusiastic followers, and the coaches, players, and fans appreciate it. The Harvard Athletic Association, the Varsity Club, and coaches of many sports have expressed on occasion words of praise for the Band's support...
Additional enterprises are in the works. A report of Dustin M. Burke, an H.S.A. director, says "it is hoped that one or two new businesses may be added each year to continue this growth process." The sudden creation of H.S.A., its impressive expansion and ambitious plans have aroused criticism. Established businessmen in the Square have feared the strategic position of H.S.A. in student sales; undergraduate publications, its potential as a competitor for advertising revenue; and other student businesses, its seeming desire to absorb all undergraduate enterprises into itself...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration, called for a "sane course"-which in NASA bafflegab seems to mean the same program that has kept the U.S. lagging behind. Roy Johnson, head of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, could offer no better proposal than the creation of a "psychological warfare department" to "answer" Soviet space feats...
When busy Housewife Shirley Jackson finds time for a new novel, she instinctively begins to id-lib. Her favorite fictional creation is the normal-looking girl who lives in a private nightmare of someone else's making. This heroine is usually close enough to sanity to be alarmed by her own fantasies, near enough to a strait-jacket to invite immediate psychoanalysis. The familiar formula, which worked almost magically well in Hangsaman (TIME, April 23, 1951). but began to look a bit seedy in The Bird's Nest (TIME, June 21, 1954), still carries...