Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reference to the situation. "The emerging Ph.D," he said, "is not what we mean by an educated man, a man who combines wide-ranging learning with an attitude of simplicity and vividness, and who commingles good taste with an excited curiosity. Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card catalogues or other areas, and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw off this inhibiting heritage...
Daphni's mosaic designers worked at a time when Byzantine artists, moving away from elongated and stylized forms, turned for suave beauty and expert molding to the long-ignored classic Greek models. The arrangement of the mosaic murals, more than 60 in all, followed the traditional pattern, with the Virgin supreme in the apse, and prophets and saints on arches, vaults and niches. The apostles and bishops attending the Virgin Mary have the mien and carefully draped robes of the Greek philosophers. On one shell beneath the central dome the Angel of the Annunciation with classic countenance floats against...
...Ernest Dichter, high priest of the motivational researchers, argues that convertibles are bought, not because buyers like fresh air and sunshine, but because somehow they regard the convertible as the mistress they dare not have. With equal solemnity, Sociologist David Riesman (in an article co-authored by Auto Expert Eric Larabee) proclaims that "many can safely sample the jet-age aura by having a design 'based' on the Sabre jet-as the 1956 Plymouth. So, too, can the consumer be in tune with the future through his dashboard, which looks like an intergalactic control panel...
Died. Herman Michael Hickman, 46, behemoth (more than 300 Ibs. at top weight) radio-TV sports figure, contributing editor and football expert of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, onetime (1948-52) head football coach at Yale, author (The Herman Hickman Reader), wit. storyteller, versifier; of complications following an operation for gastric ulcer; in Washington, B.C. A sideline Santa Claus who could quote Shakespeare by the act, Hickman won such popularity at Yale that the university once gave him the longest contract in its history (ten years) despite his not Merriwell-done record: when he resigned in 1952 in favor of a radio...
...from the engineers. Their case is that the big new jets, like every plane since World War I's "Jenny," are more-not less-complex, need a highly trained mechanic-engineer. While there may be fewer engine instruments to watch, the electrical, fuel and hydraulic systems demand increasingly expert handling...