Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporters trying to run down atrocity stories often found them to be rumors or plants. And Batista had streaks of mercy: most of today's rebel leaders, including the Castros, once jailed, were freed by Batista and lived to fight him again...
...many managements consider the computer an overgrown adding machine, thus often assign it to the wrong people, who frequently have no knowledge of the complexities of business to which a computer could be applied. "Almost all computers," says Albert Sperry, president of Panellit, Inc., whose business is making automation controls, "are run by the accountants," simply because the most obvious applications are for statistical jobs. Computers are usually put to work first on payroll jobs, which already use highly mechanized punch-card systems. While the computer can often do the work more quickly, it does...
...high panjandrums of the art world are the so-called "experts"-the men who authenticate paintings. Like baseball scouts and wine tasters, they are paid not just to guess, but to guess right.. The best of them admit that it is an uncertain art, often humbly change their judgments. But when an opinion can determine whether a painting is worth $10 or $100,000, some modern experts try to envelop their trade with the accouterments of more exact sciences, strive to test problematic works with a chemist's lofty calm. Some refuse to see the picture itself, arguing...
...bred aplomb of knowledgeable Englishmen whose ease of manner gives "the impression of having already lived once," but found "too many reserved seats" in English life. He was drawn to the independent French spirit of live-and-let-live, but noted the spiritual vacuum in which "French intellectuals so often seem to dislike the present, to fear the future and to deny the hereafter. They believe only in disbelieving." As for the prevailing winds of anti-Americanism. Griffith reminds his readers that unfavorable winds have always blown in the faces of the powerful. And many of Europe's phobias...
...Fragmentation of modern man: The interdependent complexity of modern life fosters "fragmented man," who is willy-nilly his brother's keeper and very nearly his brother's nagger. Fragmented man is often a slave to his specialty, "yet no one of us set out to be a replaceable part in life . . . our youthful ambitions were round, like the world...