Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thirty years ago, the great American legislators had their specialties: TVA was the brainchild of George Norris, labor reform of Robert Wagner, before the New Deal adopted them. Today, legislation comes from the White House, armed with expert testimony to ward off any amendments. None of today's Congressman will leave a legislative monument as almost all the great New Deal senators...
Forbes was also in expert on aerial photography. He led a botanical and geological expedition to Labrador in 1931, in explore the interior and the coastline. Flying his own seaplane, he mapped the entire area, and his work was used to lay out a northern air route to Europe during World War II. The U.S. government employed him to take serial photographs of the first hydrogen bomb test on Bekiui Atoll...
...leading expert on cepts is Princeton Senior Ed Tenner, a Phi Beta Kappa who devised the "smallest convenient unit of knowledge" definition. He reports, after much research, that Princeton courses average, per lecture, 8.8 cepts in philosophy, 5.2 in American history, 4.6 in literature, a mere 1.5 in art. A student may emerge from a course with as many as 250 cepts in his notebook. Hopefully, a few rare "kilo-cepts" and "multicepts"-cepts so basic they can be applied in many courses and to almost any historical period-may turn up among them, although Tenner has been able...
Wilbur K. Jordan has been named Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, it was announced yesterday. Jordan, who was president of Radcliffe from 1943 to 1960, is an expert in the Tudor-Stuart period of English history. He replaces William Y. Elliot who left Harvard in 1963 to join the faculty of American University...
...knows how to prod a cliché off its bed of banality so that it walks toward the brink of logical absurdity. "Who'd send a suicide telegram? Can you imagine getting a thing like that? You have to tip the kid a quarter." An entire rhetoric of expert timing is contained in Walter Matthau's slow burns and Art Carney's fretful fidgets, with Matthau inching out acting honors in one scene of nervous collapse that is rather like seeing the Empire State Building crumpling in slow motion. The rest of the cast is merely flawless...