Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Great Britain is that peculiar country in Europe," Arthur Koestler once wrote, "where people drive on the left side of the road, measure in inches and yards, and hang people by the neck until dead." Hanging has indeed been a peculiarly British institution. During the 18th century, while capital punishment...
> Clark Kerr's Godkin Lectures describe and name a new U.S. institution: the "multiversity," 1963.
Former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko spent 34 of his 63 years in the Soviet Army. In 1961, however, he had the temerity to criticize the "Khrushchev cult" at a party meeting. That outburst eventually cost him his army career, and sent him off to an asylum for 14 months as...
For added constitutional justification, the law was drafted to apply to all non-public schools. The ironic result is that some well-off private schools are now getting support. Because of their higher instructional costs and all-secular staffs, their share of public funds is often higher than that of...
For the new Mabuse comes nearer to controlling all men's lives than the original. Formerly his romantic passions were the same as the others of his class, merely stronger and more destructive. Now he is completely anti-human. Considering other men intellectually inferior, he tries to subject them to...