Word: fluxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students at Harvard College are in some way identified with Judaism, only a tenth of them are members of Hillel. The others hold a wide variety of political and religious views, according to the questionnaire, and a large number indicated that their ideas were still in a state of flux. Some of their answers indicated a confusion, or at least a transition in many attitudes towards religion...
...virtues. His ear for dialogue has never been truer, but when page after page of unselective trivia has been set down, the reader finds himself aching for an earplug. O'Hara continues to describe the nuances of social habit with rare authority in a society in which social flux continuously alters the symbols of prestige. But the snobbism of the right prep school, the right club, the right street in the right exurb becomes so intrusive that Terrace often reads like a gigantic menu...
Epicures. In Milwaukee, records were published showing that the city's children last year swallowed gunbore cleaner, soldering flux, reducing pills, battery acid, furniture polish, lighter fluid, airplane glue, fertilizer, narcotics, tranquilizers, rubbing alcohol, hormones, after-shave lotion, camphorated oil, motor oil, iodine, toilet cleaners, laundry bleach, chromium polish, gasoline, kerosene, benzene, paint, wood alcohol, linseed oil, varnish, paint thinner, pesticides, cologne, toilet water...
...that one-third of those taking "200" conference courses are in the College--sophomores, as well as juniors and seniors. According to this year's figures, 37 per cent is the actual total. One reason for this large amount of undergraduates interested in advanced English courses is the constant flux in the department. Every year is an off-year for a number of classes; usually, it seems, those helpful on general examinations. In American literature especially, those who miss the middle group course go right into the "200" section. Moreover, the advanced courses take over where the introductory surveys leave...
...gambits: "Don't move the girls; move the school," and the fingerprinting of all Nevada clergymen. The first we won hands down, and the town of Searchlight dutifully moved the grade school 500 yards from the nearest crib to conform with the law. The latter matter is in flux. But I do suggest that we have more fun, give greater pleasure and outrage to more people and perform a far higher duty to civilization than all the editors of weeklies who are fretted for integration, gambling and their own "good name." These matters are strictly for the birds...