Word: deviationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To his employees, Carlson is part saint, part demon. He works tirelessly, and expects nothing less from subordinates. His executive row is nicknamed Ulcer Alley. Managers must meet monthly profits targets or file "deviation reports" explaining how and why they were unable to do so. An annual four-day show...
"Jerry Velona, there are two to see you," the receptionist said, dressed in a polyester suit. He was sitting behind a bulbous steel microphone, the type that usually summons hospital doctors. The microphone wired his voice throughout the three-story brownstone on Beacon St., the Boston Church of Scientology. The...
Without mincing such words as geo-means, standard deviation and magnitude estimation, an American bases his SQ-status quotient-mainly on money. Although the statement seems self-evident, it is the ingeniously established bottom line to Sociologists Richard Coleman and Lee Rainwater's study of class in America, what...
"The quality of those students accepted annually has remained constant during the last ten years and there is no indication that this year's incoming freshmen will be a deviation from this pattern," Fitzgibbons added.
Our community could become a hanven for practicing homosexuals, lesbians, prostitutes and pimps," said one pamphlet distributed by the Concerned Citizens for Community Standards of Wichita, Kans. Another warned: "There is a real danger that homosexual teachers, social workers or counselors, simply by public acknowledgment of their lifestyles, can encourage...