Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princeton's President Harold W. Dodd's offered a Chicago audience a new label for the troubled times. Said he: "Americans once called it the Engineering Age, but it has become the Phenobarbital Age because of the national anxiety neurosis which has developed through lack of spiritual values in life and education . . . The fatalism with which people talk about the future of the Republic, the amount of time and money devoted to 'hot rod' pleasures, the level of current standards of sex relations, and the immoderate use of alcohol as an escape or as a crutch...
...long as our citizens call their tongue "English," they will suffer from a lingual inferiority complex. Good Americans will feel a certain compunction to speak good English. This is not good for Patriotism. Americanism cannot thrive when its very mode of communication is branded with an alien label. Before America Became Great, there may have been some who secretly wished that the colonies might some day return to the Empire, but these men have long since disappeared. Their lingual crutch should go with them...
...York supreme court last month enjoined Paradox Industries from pirating any more of Columbia's records under its impudent "Jolly Roger" label (TIME, Feb. 11), ordered it to surrender all duplications on hand, plus any master records or tape recordings from which further records could be made...
...Five moviemakers. In a consent decree, Loew's Inc., owner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, agreed to split into two separate units: one for production and distribution, the other for exhibition. The producing and distributing company will keep Loew's corporate name and MGM's label on its products. President Nicholas Schenck, who has bossed the company since 1927, will probably continue to run Loew's. The theater company, its name still to be picked, will have a completely separate management...
...image of Max Shulman's Yetts Samovar; they are bright, sophisticated, stringy-haired, and wear sensible flat shoes as they go about their nefarious work. His men meet conspiratorially in darkened alleys. His Communist cells are all "mystery" groups thinking up "mystery" plans. Philbrick constantly adopts the label of "counterspy." The only person the book pictures as capable of spying out anything more covert than as Elks meeting is Philbrick himself...