Word: mishmash
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...Cicero & Mishmash. The board began as an idea in the mind of the late Nicholas Murray Butler, then a mere dean of the faculty of philosophy at Columbia University. In those days, every college and university seemed to be setting up different requirements for admission. Even when they did agree on the broad subjects they wanted, they disagreed on how much. History at Columbia meant chiefly American history; at Yale it meant big doses of English history as well. Science for Harvard meant physics, at Yale it included botany, at Cornell, physiology. As for Latin, said Nicholas Murray Butler...
...such a mishmash, secondary schoolmen hardly knew what to get their students ready for. "Out of over 40 boys preparing for college next year," complained the headmaster of Andover, "we have more than 20 Senior classes...
...setting, the movie creates an unusually convincing mythical Balkan state: modern Vosnia, whose beautiful mountain scenery, totalitarian bosses and strained political posture clearly suggest Tito's Yugoslavia. Its natives display the reflexes conditioned in a police state, speak the Vosnian language,* a linguistic mishmash cleverly concocted out of Latin odds and Slavic ends...
...Fibber McGee & Molly, and Vic and Sade. By 1937, almost 400 network shows a month were originating in Chicago for NBC alone. Then New York money and Hollywood climate and opportunities began to siphon off Chicago's talented radiomen, and most of the remaining shows degenerated into a mishmash of successful but seedy soap operas...
Maddening Muddle. The New Statesman is beloved, as Editor Kingsley Martin admits, by a "very high percentage of readers who say . . . that they read the front political part last and agree with it least." Politically, the weekly is a mishmash, an often-maddening muddle of Socialism, appeasement of Russia, and anti-Americanism. On the Korean war the New Statesman has adopted a "plague on both your houses" attitude, and has implied that worldwide Communism would be preferable to an atomic...