Word: fad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of Britain's latest fad, the successor to Gamesmanship and the U and non-U cult. Its name: Eleven-plussery...
...fad began after this year's crop of ten-and eleven-year-olds took the controversial "eleven-plus examination" (TIME, Feb. 4, 1952) that will determine whether they will be allowed to prepare for a university at a grammar school or have to be satisfied with a commercial, technical or trade school. As the youngsters recited the questions they remembered, their parents began testing each other and their friends. Then the London Daily Mail published some of the questions as a challenge to their readers. How many adults, the paper wanted to know, could get through the ordeal their...
SNAKE DOING IN THE STARLET'S BED?) to slick women's magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal, which inquired recently: ARE WE COMMERCIALIZING SEX? (Conclusion: "Maybe.") Many other mass-circulation magazines have joined the fad for question mark journalism, and in recent months have popped brain-rattling questions ranging from WAR GETTING CLOSER? (Answer: Few governments "now rule it out") to HOW WILL THE BIRD FLY?, a report on the stock market that concluded sagely: "There was solid ground for fogbound uncertainty." In McGraw-Hill's Business Week, an inquiring headline writer last week achieved...
Trainer Jim Farrell, whose brother was a former Crimson track coach, worked on the new scheme with McCurdy. He said that the gloves "could be of real value." But, he added, "they could be just another fad. I've seen these things come and go for almost 30 years. The boys like to wear something different or colorful. It gives them a lift and seems to build their morale...
Skip or Enrich. Though the fad is still largely in the talking stage, scores of U.S. cities have joined the talent hunt. But once the talented student has been identified by elaborate tests and teacher reports, the experts disagree on the best way of treating him. In some places there are special schools for the bright (e.g., The Bronx (N.Y.) High School of Science). Some cities have set up special classes; others allow a few gifted students to accelerate or skip grades. But since the experts do not agree on whether acceleration or segregation might do the talented more harm...