Word: labels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes frequent illusions to "subversives" and "reds" at Harvard. Now, these two words have a very specific ring. They conjure up the picture of men taking orders from Moscow, itching to destroy our government by force and turn America into a police state. But those Mr. Robertson chooses to label "subversive" are "misguided professors . . . with foreign, atheistic and thoroughly un-American ideologies and philosophies, if not actually communistic in name, communistic in form or substance...
...McClean played a home recording of it on the air. After that, about 20 requests for it came in to station WERE every week. A brand-new record company ("Triple A") grabbed it for its first release, quickly sold 21,000 copies around Cleveland, then leased it to another label (Essex) for national distribution. By last week it was pushing the half-million mark to become the rarest kind of hit, unplanned and unplugged...
Readers of Drew Pearson's enterprising but frequently slapdash syndicated column often have trouble separating fact from fancy. Last week Columnist Pearson solved the problem with a handy "grade label" guide, if not for the readers of his column, at least for subscribers to his new ($50 a year) weekly newsletter. Personal from Pearson. The guide: "√A story we have attempted to check without success, or a story which is impossible to check. √√A story we believe to be true but have not been able to authenticate. √√√A . . . story we've been...
...Provost, of course, believes that athletic facilities are as much a part of the college as libraries. But one can hardly label watching football games a vital educational activity. When students patronize the stacks of Lamont, they are fulfilling certain academic requirements. Sooner or later, they must pass examinations to determine if they have soaked in enough knowledge. But at Soldiers Field, nobody has to absorb anything except perhaps fresh air. The college has a traditional duty to turn out men capable of its degrees, but none to manufacture students who know its football cheers and basketball tactics...
...used as a synonym for a wealthy man or an expensive product, e.g., "Isn't his new house Dynaflow?" (The name was first used as a term for politicians because they all drove Buicks with Dynaflow transmissions.) In Israel, salmon is known only as "fresh" because the label on a can of U.S. salmon always has the word in big letters. And in Greece, a pretty girl is a "nylon...