Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contain too many dirty digs to be just good clean fun. When Mary Worth pays a visit to the summer home of "Comic Strip Artist Hal Rapp," he proves a coarse cad. "Hey! Who's this old biddy?" he demands. "I was expecting somebody younger! Get the idea?" Soon he is hurling a glass of booze (poured into a tumbler decorated with a Capp-created Shmoo) at one of the peons who turns out his strip Big Abe on the assembly line...
...often came to mean concentrating on any activity provided it was not intellectual. Self-discipline sometimes meant no discipline at all, the emphasis on individual differences did away with objective standards, the stress on cooperation frequently turned out to be conformity to one's "peer group," and the idea that the school must educate the "whole child" led the school to take on all sorts of responsibilities that properly belong to the family. Perhaps the most debilitating doctrine of all is the notion that the child must be protected from competition. The result: morale became more important than achievement...
...Department continued to consider the foreign operations of the press an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Said the pro-Administration New York Herald Tribune: "Inasmuch as the American press has been functioning since before the birth of the Republic and has a special position under the U.S. Constitution, the idea that it should be placed on probation by the State Department is somewhat breathtaking...
...equal any price reported by a customer, and has the capital to buy carloads of appliances at lower prices than most small discounters can command. Many other big stores from coast to coast hold "warehouse sales" to take advantage of the discounters' low-overhead, high-volume merchandising idea...
...charge of all advertising. A vice president since 1948, he gets a big share of the credit for putting over Tide ("Gets clothes cleaner than any soap-any soap"), the first successful all-purpose detergent. Yet Morgens denies he ever authored an original P. & G. idea, claims "everything we do is created, adjusted and tested" by his "team." ¶ Dr. Wilbur G. Malcolm, 55, a bacteriologist turned business executive, will take over as president and chief executive of American Cyanamid Co., the nation's seventh largest chemical company (1956 sales: $500 million), succeeding Kenneth C. Towe, 64, who moves...