Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each year U.S. universities invoke the iron rule of retirement to uproot deadwood professors. In this proper process, some rare and ageless men are always lost - activists who spurned ivory towers, scholars who truly enlarged human under standing, professors who really professed...
...Most famous is the 19th century Scotsman Daniel Dunglas Home, who set up a salon in Paris where he produced table rappings, voices, visions, and even floated out the window, and numbered among his fascinated visitors Trollope, Hawthorne, the Brownings, Napoleon III and his Empress Eugénie. With proper scientific detachment, Dingwall refuses to say whether these supernatural doings were real or imaginary; evidence points both ways. No such doubts trouble Author Lethbridge, an archaeologist who has often seen ghosts and has even sketched a few in his book. Ghosts are plentiful, he believes, because they are natural phenomena...
...Church: "It is wrong for the churches to expect the government to implement their teachings." Wrote Harold E. Fey, editor of the Protestant Christian Century: "The High Court has not outlawed prayer . . . The only thing the court has outlawed is transgression by any official, including educational officials, of the proper separation between church and state...
...fond of saying as he warms to an earnest exposition of the Communist economic threat. He exhibits a practiced columnar hand by asking himself a question and then answering it: "Can business discipline itself?" ("Yes"), or "Can we believe in statistics?" ("Sometimes"). Somehow the answers spin out to proper length...
...cutting down of his statues. But his eclipse was only temporary. Eventually he came to be acknowledged a great man of letters, if not a great author. The battle with the prudes and sentimentalists had been won, and it had been won under banners first raised by the proper, gentle Dean...