Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clause handing any service Secretary and any member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff a license to run to Capitol Hill to make "any recommendations that he may deem proper" would be "legalized insubordination . . . bad concept, bad practice, bad influence...
...famed, spirited, but excessively proper translation of British Classicist Gilbert Murray, Aeacus. judge of the dead, mistakes the wine god Dionysus for Heracles, who has stolen Cerberus, the watchdog of Hades...
Guided Thinking. Huxley cites such opinion-forming techniques as brainwashing, subconscious communication, drugs, sleep teaching. But when he discusses propaganda, Huxley begins to advocate it. The champion of laissez-faire in the marketplace of ideas becomes the proponent of guided thinking for the masses-along the proper lines, of course. Individuals, he says, "should be taught enough about propaganda analysis to preserve them from an uncritical belief in sheer nonsense, but not so much as to make them reject outright the not always rational outpourings of the well-meaning guardians of tradition. That which is merely irrational but compatible with...
Target date for the Concert Hall is now July 1960. The new Met is due to be finished in July 1961; the Theater of the Dance by July 1963. Says Center President Rockefeller: "It is proper that Lincoln Center should represent the best of American architecture, for we are building not for today or tomorrow, but for 100 years. We hope Lincoln Center will stand, in the eyes of the world, as a symbol of our national regard for the arts, and our recognition of their importance in the lives of the American people...
...Mormons reply that the sheep are simply returning to their proper fold after centuries astray. Their missionaries find an ancient kinship with the Pacific's brown-skinned peoples in a passage from the Book of Mormon, which Founder Joseph Smith produced as revelation in upstate New York in 1829. In Smith's history of the first inhabitants of America, some of the white-skinned, "delightsome" members of the Israelite tribe of Lehi grow quarrelsome and sinful after arriving in America from Israel. Result: they turn dark-skinned and "loathsome," thereby producing the American Indians. A patriarch named Hagoth...