Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists are not the only ones who try to put it in reverse. Riesman is annoyed at those who pick up his biting criticism of progressive schools as they are today and use it to attack Philosopher John Dewey and the whole movement of progressive education-which in Dewey's time, Riesman believes, was a liberating force working against the main lines of a culture where character was inner-directed. Educational reactionaries who want to go back to the little red schoolhouse have set themselves an impossible task. They cannot return to inner-direction because the U.S. cannot return...
...ESCAPE OF SOCRATES, by Robert Pick (326 pp.; Knopf; $3.95). An arresting fictionalization, lightly laced with sex, of one of history's most famous trials. Unjustly condemned to drink the hemlock on the charge that he was impious and had corrupted the young, Socrates refuses to escape and save his skin, preferring to save his soul. Not nearly as perceptive an account as Plato's, of course, but full of lively local color (garlic-eating jurymen, the seductive street wiles of Athenian slave girls) and a sympathetic look at Socrates' much maligned wife, Xanthippe...
...professional Harvardman will often pick the University's most esoteric-sounding courses, like Chinese 10, Semitic A, and Slavic 145, just to impress his friends and the people back home. His more realistic brethren usually seek a gut for a fourth course. But to most--those for whom the catalog's offering seems to grow vast as the time remaining in college becomes less and less--the choice of a fourth course is a decision worth a little time and effort...
...necessary to pick different strains of virus to represent the three main polio types because some highly infectious strains are less potent than seemingly milder strains when it comes to stimulating the production of protective antibodies. Also, individuals differ in their antibody response to vaccination, depending on whether they have had some previous natural immunity to one type of polio virus...
Other successful companies have not been as single-minded as St. Regis. Glidden Co. branched out from paints and naval stores to plastics, food products and many other items. But such companies are not as helter-skelter in their diversification as they may seem at first look. They carefully pick new items that will fit into their old sales and manufacturing organizations...