Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lack of analytic thinking helps explain the almost magical power individual words seem to have. In his concept of cheng ming, "the rectification of names," Confucius pointed out that names and terminology must be correct, otherwise "the people do not know to move hand or foot." This idea, suggest Edwin Reischauer and John Fairbank in a joint book on Asia, really means not so much that theory should correspond to reality, but "that reality should be made to conform with theory." Similarly, the problem of appearance is involved in the concept of face. Partly, face is a preference of form...
...with teams from Princeton, Yale, Pennsylvania, Mount Holyoke and Barnard for the Second Annual Ivy League-Seven Sisters Trivia Contest-the closest thing to a world series that the game has spawned. On hand to officiate were Trivia's inventors, former Columbia Students Dan Carlinsky and Edwin Goodgold, whose two books on the subject, published by Dell, have sold 450,000 copies in the past year...
...State members of the Americans for Democratic Action paid $10 each to hear Kennedy and Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, discuss the costs of the Vietnam war at the ADA's annual Roosevelt dinner...
...EDWIN Gilbert has made a career out of prose peep shows. A kind of strait-laced Tom Wolfe, he milks the various segments of the American elite for all they are worth and then uses the material for novels. Past Gilbert victims include the prestigious families of Westchester (Silver Spoon), the wealthy American businessmen in France (The New Ambassadors), and the automobile society in Detroit (American Chrome). Now Gilbert wants to tell us about the rich of New York City, the beautiful people of Park Avenue who grace the back pages of Time magazine. He's discovered something...
...exciting there'll be three or four up with clothespins; otherwise you can't find it. I'd like to be exciting more often." Bethell considers the fall's biggest symbolic achievement the 20 inches the UPI wire devoted to extracts from a Bulletin interview of University Professor Edwin O. Reischauer last October...