Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult decision in Roth v. U.S. (1957), which held for the first time that obscenity is not protected by First Amendment guarantees of free speech. In Roth, which upheld a federal antiobscenity statute, the court classified obscenity as a kind of "non-speech" -no longer protected by the familiar test that bars only those words that carry a "clear and present danger" of inciting anti-social conduct. Roth also carefully declared: "Sex and obscenity are not synonymous." And in later cases, the court refused to censor sexual expression unless 1) "the material is utterly without redeeming social importance...
...probably in the fields of science and business that American patience is most familiar. The folk hero of American tinkerers remains Thomas A. Edison, who prescribed "stick-to-itiveness" as one of the prime requisites for achievement. More sophisticated researchers have kept alive the tradition of the patient scientist. Luther Burbank spent 16 years developing an edible cactus for cattle, and during his experiments, by his own estimate, had a million spines painfully pierce his skin. Dr. Selman A. Waksman and his researchers spent four years analyzing 100,000 soil microorganisms before isolating streptomycin. Today, the legendary, lonely experimenter...
When the U.S. ran out of silver dol lars a year and a half ago, it meant only one thing for Nevada's gambling casinos: snake eyes. Gone were the traditional silver-dollar slot machines, the familiar clank of "cart wheels," the bulging pants pockets. At least until onetime Adman Joseph Segel came on the scene...
Whereas White concedes the difficulties in trying to extend aid to Africa, Azikiwe unhesitatingly labels American efforts "neo-colonial." His are the familiar complaints against the United States' moral crusade against communism: charges of economic exploitation and manipulation, cries of CIA conspiracies and engineered coups. Azikiwe maintains that the unrest in Ghana leading to Nkrumah's downfall was caused by an international capitalist 'cocoa conspiracy" which depressed the price of cocoa, Ghana's staple crop. Apparently the increased production of cocoa in Nigeria and the Ivory Coast had little to do with the falling price. Azikiwe is justified in condemning...
...themselves with the wider literary world. In the last decade, its editors have written foppish editorials scorning the semi-autobiographical short stories produced in undergraduate writing courses. One such editorial, by Robert P. Fichter '60, mocks the "Harvard sex story" genre of the 1950's; he contends that the familiar locales of these stories--Widener, the Waldorf, the banks of the Charles, a fifth floor in Lowell--have been played out. But "Winter Term," by Sallie Bingham '58, is like Nemerov's stories: perceptive, caring, indelible...