Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The real anger had gone out of the debate over meat, but the President still drew scorn from every quarter. Republican politicians pointed to the confusion in the White House. Fiorello LaGuardia, speechmaking in Oklahoma City, called the President the "Roy Riegels* of American politics." Pint-sized Billy Rose, showman...
Sometime around the spring term of 1943, the last vestiges of "education as usual" went out the wartime window at Harvard as in other schools. The program of sixteen courses and eight terms of study for an A.B. or S.B. disappeared down the maw of preinduction acceleration. A twelve-week...
The Algonquin became a Manhattan institution, and gave birth to other institutions. Most famed offspring: the Round Table, "a crowd of unusually agreeable folk": Alexander Woollcott, George S. Kaufman, "F.P.A.", Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Heywood Broun. In the twenties, they lunched together in the Oak Room. But when they died...
Just ending, too, was an eight-year dig by the Smithsonian Institution in Mexico's state of Veracruz. In hilly, jungle country, not far from the Gulf Coast, lived a people far older than the Zapotecs, probably older than the Mayas. Archeologists call their culture "Olmec"; but as people...
Although a mere score or so men are now--as varsity players--entitled to use the Harvard tennis facilities, Coach Barnaby has righteously justified his denial of courts to the other thousands of college men "because of the benefit of the intercollegiate program." The national publicity created by a winning...