Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another scare about a new birthcontrol pill set U.S. doctors' telephones jangling last week as women called to ask whether their particular pills were safe. The answer was the same as it has been since the pills first went on the market in 1960: "Yes, as far as anyone knows...
...enough to make an old patriarch sorrow for his erring sons. In FORTUNE last month, Manhattan Architect Philip Johnson, a onetime disciple, had said: "This is still a period of disintegration in all the arts. There's no particular advantage to chaos, but that's where we are." Added Chicago Architect Harry Weese: "Mies continues to be our conscience, but who listens to his conscience these days?" With his 80th birthday approaching and an exhibition of his drawings on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe...
...indicated that some kind of increased taxation would be necessary to get money into the cities, and called attention to Boston's particular need. Boston, Collins said, has only a property tax, unlike most other cities with several taxes. With the exception of Washington. D.C., Boston also has the highest proportion of tax exempt property in the country...
However, there can be too much directorial control and some players seem content merely to don the assorted masks that Carnovsky parcelled out. This foible seemed the particular property of the villains. Matt Conley in the most unkindest role of all, the bastard Edmund, exercised enough wit and restraint to stay this side of melodrama. But Regan (Phoebe Brand) and Goneril (Ludi Claire) ranted and raved, groaned and grimaced. Robert Benedict's Oswald was arch and despicable, Nick Smith's Cornwall took appropriate relish in kicking out Gloucester's eyes; these actors' evil was far too lunatic to be cruel...
Despite the United Ministry members' common isolation, their ideological and administrative ties even to each other are somewhat weak. In private conversation many point out the difficulties of acting as a group when each man has a responsibility to his particular religious community and tradition. No two men have the same responsibilities. Some are paid to deal only with students; some both minister to students and pursue limited administrative tasks in their own adult parishes; some are senior ministers of large Cambridge churches who take time from other activities to deal with college students...