Word: pendulum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colleges should not "devote time and energy to elementary drill . . . The secondary schools, both public and private, could and should be responsible for the 'stage of discipline' in the fundamentals . . . The pendulum has swung too far in some quarters against the older idea (abused as it was) that some things are and must be mainly 'preparatory' to others in education...
...Army's policy pendulum swung too far. By 1944, battle-weary men were being browbeaten into going up front after insufficient psychiatric care, and they were being separated too long from their own units. Yet there was real progress in the fact that a psychiatrist was assigned to nearly every division; in the later stages of World War II about 60% of psychiatric cases went back to combat, while 30% more were fit for some kind of military duty...
...picture has some flaws. It sometimes seems that the camera is swinging like a pendulum from homelife to airport life and back again. The airshots are not varied, and the pilot and his instruents are usually shown from the same angle. But these are minor defects. And with the tension generated by the action, you may not even notice them...
...felt a trifle awed when Freshman Macartney began setting out on Sundays to preach in nearby churches, wearing a high hat and a black tailcoat. Many of his colleagues have stayed awed ever since. For 47 years, Presbyterian Macartney, singularly unperplexed by theological doubts, scientists' criticism, or the pendulum swing of vogues, has been filling churches by preaching the same Gospel he learned at the Seminary...
...spite of such widespread acceptance of his theories, William Kilpatrick soon found the pendulum swinging the other way. At 80 he remains an incorrigible rebel, but in revolt against a counterrevolution, started by men like the late William C. Bagley and Robert M. ("The Great Books") Hutchins. His critics in education have long sought to repeal him, insisting that in trying to breathe life into the schools, he has merely blown away their substance...