Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belief in Disbelief. In the first third of the book, Author Griffith offers his autobiographical press pass to American life. Seattle-born, Griffith had a boardinghouse boyhood more apt for the pen of Dickens than the brush of Norman Rockwell. Entering the University of Washington in the Depression year of 1932 as a journalism student, he learned, he admits, precious little about journalism or anything else. In such "vast, endearingly inadequate academic ballparks," Griffith argues, "the indulgent curse of mediocrity in American life begins...
...toward full convertibility was a source of pride and new hope. Glowed "the engineer of the West German miracle," rotund Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard: "Who will blame me for feeling deep personal satisfaction? After all, it was I who eight years ago in a world of destruction, disorder and disbelief called for convertibility. What did I get? Mockery and scorn. Yet of all conceivable forms of integration in the free world, free convertibility of currencies is the most fertile...
...players must compete for available financial aid on a strictly equal basis with all other students. Many of the best players get no help at all. Dartmouth's Coach Bob Blackman. reared in the high-pressure big time (University of Southern California), reports with a lingering trace of disbelief that in his four seasons at Dartmouth "none of our first-string quarterbacks have required or received scholarship help." In the Ivy League, explains Harvard's Coach John Yovicsin, "football is one of the most important extracurricular activities. Frankly, that's where it belongs. There...
Citation: "Infinite patience with official apathy, frustrating bureaucracy, and public disbelief in two countries...
...Staring in Disbelief." Such sponsor neglect incenses Susskind, a toy bulldog of a man who hardly minds biting the hand that hesitates to feed him. At every chance, he sneers at the "ocean of mediocrity" brought on by "panic buying" of quiz games and westerns. He insists that advertisers are deluded, says that viewers "are staring in stark disbelief and disinterest, and I hazard the guess that their pocketbooks are zipped...