Word: fad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never went to college and 20% did not even finish high school. What can be done to encourage the gifted student? Ten years ago, says Robert Havighurst, professor of education at the University of Chicago, scarcely anyone was asking that question. "Today, educating the gifted has almost become a fad...
...martini in a refrigerator," he says, "any more than you can put in a kiss"; and he sums up his 1921 wedding to Marylander Eleanor Green in a quaint, jazz-age way: ''We exchanged sarcasms and fell in love, a well-known fad...
...conventional position (on the back with legs flexed on the abdomen) for a woman in the second stage of labor is "simply a newfangled fad," said the University of Mississippi's Dr. Michael Newton. "Sitting, kneeling, squatting or other positions have been used for countless generations'... In discarding age-old positions, have we adopted a technique which is simply more convenient for the mother's attendants?" The primitive positions enable the woman to use her uterine contractions much more effectively, Dr. Newton believes. His prescription: an adjustable back rest on the labor table so that the mother...
...free testing. Because of Victoreen's highly individual theories about sound transmission and reproduction, the Vicon contains not one microphone but four. With four batteries it is bulkier and heavier (6½ oz.) than other transistor aids. Doctors do not object to this; they generally deplore the fad for smallness and concealment. Men wear it under their shirts, suspended from a harness around their necks; women can clip it to a reinforced shoulder strap...
...aftermath of World War II spawned no identifiable Lost Generation, but it did bring a word for intellectuals to play with: existentialism. At first it appeared to be nothing but a new French fad-redolent of sex, sidewalk cafes, tight blue jeans and Communism. But on examination it seems that all kinds of respectable thinkers are existentialists, and that France's Atheist Jean-Paul Sartre represents merely a quasi-Communist splinter group in a movement that grew out of the thoughts of the great 19th century Danish religious thinker, Sören Kierkegaard. What is a modern-day existentialist...