Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joseph T. McKenney, director of physical education in the Boston schools, urged that the city accept the offer of John W. Watson '22 to donate $100,000 towards the purchase price, and buy the Arena outright...
Klondike Vein. A Wilber TV play is often spiced with Spillane-type violence: a flogging or a torture scene or a near-lynching. His heroines are outright symbols of purity, his villains 'are double-dyed, his heroes are properly heroic. A TV producer describes the typical Wilber melodrama as "a handling of clichés that somehow keeps the viewer from realizing he's watching clichés." Wilber's favorite author is Jack London but, he admits, "I've never read much of London or anyone else." He has seen only one stage play...
...major educational change was the inauguration of Joint Instruction for Radcliffe students. In a report to the Faculty, Buck stated that "this new plan grew out of a conviction that Harvard-Radcliffe relations at present are unsatisfactory." The merger, he believes, is a healthy compromise between complete divorce and outright coeducation...
LABOR. The Taft-Hartley law will have to be dealt with. There are signs that this issue may not be explosive. In 1949, Senator Taft agreed to 28 clarifying amendments, but labor then was fighting for outright repeal as a symbolic goal. Last week A.F.L. President George Meany, filled with what seemed to be a cooperative spirit, said he is now willing to settle for amendment rather than repeal...
Outside southern Ohio, theological conservatives have taken exception to this working-level church union. Editorialized this week's Episcopal Living Church: "Outright departure from the integrity of [the church's] faith and life." But Clergymen McCrackin and Indian Hill's present minister, the Rev. Luther Tucker, have found that the two faiths can worship side by side and still respect the two traditions. Says Episcopalian Tucker: "The spirit-this something different which people have brushed up against in the partnership in the Gospel in this place-this is Holy Spirit...