Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acquiesence of the student body to the ensconsced pattern intensifies rather than alleviates the Eastern provincialism that characterizes the Harvard undergraduate. Provincialism here means something other than the narrowness and lack of cultural feeling which the term usually connotes. It is rather a posture of universality, created by the sense of being superlative in certain areas. New York City is in this way an example of provincialism, in that the staunch, chauvinistic New Yorker sees his city as a microcosm of the universe, and believes that everything important in the world is in some way embraced by New York. Similarly...
...undergraduate, Europe is a spectrum ranging from Germany's "Hegelian mysticism" to England's ubiquitous middle class muddling through Asia and Africa are still thought of as lower civilizations, admired only for primitive art and Japanese prints. This is the average extent of undergraduate cosmopolitanism. Meanwhile, the non-Eastern student has been taught the inadequacies of his own provincialism; and even if he does not repudiate his background by the end of his four years at Harvard, he will wear an eastern mask while he is here, to be shed only when he returns home, if he returns...
...delivered so far boast average loads of nearly 80% on nights from New York to Chicago and Detroit. Together, the two jet-powered craft boosted American's February business to an alltime record of 364 million revenue passenger miles, some 8% better than last year at this time. Eastern already has 18 Electras in service, and reports loads 30% to 50% better than the average for piston-engined craft...
...over by tourists and travel writers. Searching for a virgin field, Author-Traveler John Sack turned to 13 of the smallest and least important nations, seminations and oddball principalities he could find, from seagirt Lundy (pop. 21), ten miles off the coast of an indifferent England, to the Middle Eastern principality of Swat (pop. 518,600), whose wily Wali encourages the tourist trade, according to Sack, by personally inspecting the toilet drains in his nation's only hotel...
...Mistress (Japanese). A beautifully Eastern view of the rise of a fallen woman, who struggles to submit to nature rather than to the Western way of struggling against...