Word: print
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right or wrong, better or worse, Charlie Wilson was the man most responsible for the situation McElroy found in the U.S. military establishment. Wilson's five-year tenure covered half the life span of the Defense Department, and his heavy thumb left the biggest print. When Wilson came to Washington the Korean war was about over, and his first big job was to convert to the long-haul New Look. He cut manpower, substituted the firepower of increasingly plentiful nuclear weapons, and it is Charlie Wilson's monument that he maintained an effective force-in-being that kept...
Last week, despite a setback from a bout of pneumonia, George Congrave was able to feed himself with a special knife-and-fork combination that enabled him both to cut and pick up meat with his left hand. He was using that hand to print simple messages-his name and address, the word "mother" ("stepfather" was too much for him) and a comment on the hospital: "Here it is nice." His spoken vocabulary was limited to "Yes," "No," "Hi Mom" and "Thanks," but the speech therapist was confident that it would soon grow...
Perhaps no educator willing to rush into print thinks as little of U.S. education as Stringfellow Barr. Now professor of humanities at Rutgers, he has taught at his alma mater, the University of Virginia, pioneered (with Hutchins and Adler) the Great Books idea, served as president of Great Books-oriented St. John's College in Maryland. At 60, "Winkie" Barr has committed a first novel. Not surprisingly, it is about life among professors, and even less surprisingly, it says that U.S. professors, students, college presidents and trustees are a sorry...
...willful and full of remorse for her girlish sins. But one thing she is from beginning to end-a fine little writer, with a gift for precise observation that many an adult writer develops only after years of practice. She is now 77, wrote nothing else that got into print. But to the small shelf of notable writing by children she added a record of open-eyed youth that is a pleasure to read...
Turtle Afloat. Koreans proudly point back to the days when the country was the base from which Buddhism was launched in Japan, and a prime influence on Japan's ceramic art. Not only did Koreans print with movable type 50 years before Gutenberg, and launch an ironclad ship (in the form of a turtle) that devastated the Japanese fleet in 1592, but over the centuries they have made a rich contribution to the art of the Orient...