Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Political ears thought they heard President Franklin Roosevelt's first third-term announcement when he said at Mount Vernon, in a speech commemorating President George Washington's first notification of election: "That Washington would have refused public service if the call had been a normal one has always been my belief. But the summons to the Presidency had come to him in a time of real crisis and deep emergency. The dangers that beset the young nation were as real as though the very independence Washington had won for it had been threatened once more by foreign foes...
Chief significance of the election was to test the efficiency of the Chicago Democratic machine, the Horatius that has kept downstate Illinoisans from pushing the third most populous State in the U. S. over the bridge to its "normal" Republicanism. In 1932 the machine held Herbert Hoover down to 41% of the Chicago vote. In 1936 Alf Landon was shaved to 34%. Last week Republicans got 43.7%. That augured Republican victory in 1940 and made Dwight Green the leading Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois...
Last week Lindsborg's chorus sang its 168th Messiah. Visitors from as far away as Mexico swelled the little Kansas town to two-and-a-half times its normal population. Besides the Messiah the Lindsborgers sang Bach's surging, intricate St. Matthew Passion. Twice a week for many weeks, the husky, hard-handed choristers had rehearsed with religious earnestness. Some drove from farms 50 miles away. Imported soloists from the East marveled at the sober fervor with which they chanted the complicated scores...
...years will recognize that I am not describing a mythical individual. The student of today desires the rich personal satisfactions which works of art can give, but he desires something further. He feels, often unconsciously, the need for establishing, in Dewey's phrase, "the continuity of artistic experience with normal processes of living" in order that his experience of art may become a part of the equipment with which he is to establish a sound, happy and useful integration between himself and his world--that present world in which, quite naturally, he is primarily interested. He rather resents the academic...
...seems to me that such criticism of collegiate functions and activities has been entirely too much overdone at Harvard. We are normal individuals, not prepossessed of a superior or supercilious attitude toward the antics of our fellow students of other schools in general. WE are neither children to follow the rowdy trend, nor prematurely old, to withdraw completely. The Harvard group may be heterogeneous, and we are proud of it and attempt to become more representative of the U.S., but anyone of us might have fitted into the so called "Joe College" life at Cornell or Pennsylvania, for example. There...