Word: finding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decisions of the Supreme Court striking down the illiberal practices which the Bar Association seeks to reinstate were not, as some critics have argued, legalisms based on semantic misinterpretation. They were, on the contrary, reasonable assertions of basic, but long-neglected, civil rights. It is therefore astounding to find the ABA standing with the American Legion and comparable reactionary elements in proposing a return to the days of the witch-hunt and the Red herring...
Singing contestants and sagging ratings killed the quizzes. Twenty One, The $64,000 Question, The $64,000 Challenge, and half a dozen other intellectual pretenders are buried. The fancy "Fantastics" that were supposed to herald a trend -Invisible Man and World of Giants-have yet to find sponsors. Patti Page and Buddy Bregman, with their variety shows, will be dropped in March; Man with a Camera, a freelance photographer's adventures, was a flop from the start, will also disappear next month. Behind Closed Doors, a cloak-and-daguerreotype, is almost sure to follow. Even laughter is losing...
Alumni. "Most colleges are at their wits' end to find something, aside from financial support, which can worthily occupy the time and energy of intelligent alumni. To put it harshly, the support and good will of the alumni may not in itself mean much to an institution, but its absence can hurt. If there is not an apparent, active, or even noisy alumni support for a school, that fact will have to be explained to legislators, donors, parents and even prospective students...
Presidents. "More skillfully than most men, they can make words do their bidding-idly filling the time, concealing their thoughts, or serving a purpose. Another surprising discovery for the college president is to find how little of his time, thought and energy goes into education. Eventually his preoccupation with 'housekeeping,' however irritating and deplorable it may be to a new president of scholarly interests, weans the mind and creates a mood of resignation. Soon he finds his colleagues making references to books he has not read." The average term for a college president, says Stoke, is four years...
...banker . . . why he got egg on the bedspread." Back in the U.S. in the '30s, he wrote film scores (for Ben Hecht, Cecil B. DeMille), abruptly stopped writing music altogether, later explained: "I felt that I was wrong or the world was wrong, and I decided to find out." The process of discovery was oblique. Widely able, he wrote articles for Esquire on endocrinology, a daily advice-to-the-lovelorn column for the Chicago Sun Syndicate, a book in 1940 on international strategy (The Shape of the War to Come). With a conviction that modern music was "intellectualized...