Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pointing to the need for visual arts workshops, he stressed the importance of manual arts to people who are continually working with their minds. He suggested that such facilities would have particular value for young women...
...Stevenson observes this trend in facets of American life outside the political area, but his particular concern is with the dangerous potentials of the communications system in an election. He fears that one party could buy an election by saturating television and radio channels with its candidates and its propaganda, thus playing on the herd tendencies in America...
...informal talks to alumni across the U.S., the dean of admissions of a famous Ivy League university likes to give the old grads a jolt. "If you were to apply for your alma mater today," he is quoted as saying, "only 20% of you would get it." In that particular ploy, the dean is not alone. Says Acting President Archibald Macintosh of Haverford College : "I have occasionally talked to alumni about getting into Haverford today and have told them, 'I sometimes doubt if I would have admitted myself...
Professor Cherington, on the other hand, announced a plan to spread civilization to the hinterlands of New Hampshire, in particular to the obscure village of Peterborough. Naturalists were quick to see the advantage of the remove, and plans were underway for a neotranscendental revolt when President Pusey denied flatly that the University would ever forsake historic Cambridge...
...pound class, on the other hand, appears one of the weakest, as neither Tom Bertone nor Dick Steinzig, both natural 130-pounders, has much experience. Bertone in particular shows a great deal of natural ability, which could be developed before too long...