Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note that the words "bumptious young Americans" are used to describe those who founded the Paris Review [Aug. 11]. If the word bumptious is to be interpreted as "offensively self-assertive," it might better be applied to those who had whatever hand in producing this particular story. The Review was founded by Harold L. Humes and Peter Matthiessen, the author of two novels and many notable short stories. The first two recruits were George A. Plimpton and Thomas H. Guinzburg...
Your Aug. 11 article concerning the Jehovah's Witnesses' convention was extremely interesting. It seems that the more fantastic the dogmas a particular sect or religion has, the easier it is for them to gain converts...
...Earnest Discussion. The fateful U.S. decision was made by Dwight Eisenhower alone. But behind his personal decision lay weeks of earnest discussion between top-level Administration officials, each one expressing his fears, or his hopes, in the light of his particular governmental function. The calendar of one of the U.S.'s most soul-wrenching secret debates...
...Medical researchers have been trying for years to prove that people with a particular blood type are especially prone to certain diseases. Example: Type O blood is supposed to run with a high rate of peptic ulcer. Wait, says a hardheaded Swiss, Geneva's Dr. Alexander Manuila, in the A.M.A. Journal. It may be true, but cannot be proved by available data-the claims have been based on inadequate studies and inaccurate statistics...
...also served churches in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri and New York City. In his book-cluttered little cubicle in the Christian Century's ancient Chicago office, Editor Gill. 38. last week explained why he had decided to leave journalism for another job: "Part of the reason is my particular distortion of the Calvinistic conscience, or at least my Presbyterian version of it. Perhaps it is the feeling that I am too fascinated and excited by this whole business of observing, watching and commenting from the outside. Maybe, in other words. I have some guilt feelings...