Word: different
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tucker emphasized that such a plan would aid both in purchasing and "in eliminating the idea that one House has better food than another." He claimed that food does not differ from one House to another, since all purchasing is done through a single University agency...
...such divisions is the raw material for chaos, and under the pressures of Year 1959 the House might even be forgiven for flying off like pin wheels in 435 different directions. Small chance. In the 170 years of its existence the House, through trial and error (with plenty of both), has developed a remarkable system of self-government, comprised of hard rules and of a hard breed of men who, however else they may differ, live by their rules. The five top leaders of the House have only one thing in common. They can all say with Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...through the Rules Committee to get legislation to the floor. The Rules Committee serves as an absolutely necessary check on the flood of bills introduced each session by the members of the House (by last weekend they had introduced 3,443 so far this session). But beyond that, notions differ. "Some think we are just a traffic cop," says Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith. "Others feel that we have to be selective and exercise our own judgment on what should go to the floor. I subscribe to the latter...
Ages of Man is a dinner-jacketed Sir John Gielgud standing on an unadorned stage reciting Shakespeare. If such an all-Shakespeare recital must differ from an all-Beethoven program by offering excerpts rather than whole works, it yet resembles it in one important way. It communicates the range and richness, above all the uniqueness of its subject. That it manages to do so, that it seems no mere Victorian display of The Beauties of Shakespeare, is tribute to the range and richness of the interpreter...
...grown out of an interaction of psychoanalysis, anthropology and history. The first two fields have a kinship, he remarked, in their common concern for "underprivileged data," (dreams, games, weaning habits), and search for "the rivulet of motive in the tidal wave of history." But "groups, like scholars, may differ over what is basic in society," and to understand these differences, a study of history is necessary...