Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Probably no athletic conference has received more attention than this one has--from the press, from educators, and from pure football fans. For the Ivy League is trying to make Big Time Football possible on a small scale. This basic philosophy is looked at by some as unrealistic; by others as pure hypocrisy. Some critics view it as an entirely unworkable plan, but a greater number--including the various schools involved--see the Ivy League as the only possible way to ease King Football from his mighty throne without stripping him of all his possessions...
...this Ivy League. On the one hand, there is the Presidents Agreement, affirming the amateurish quality of the League, and on the other hand there is the picture of the filled stadium, the well-organized alumni, and the vigorous publicity offices. To some, as we said before, this is pure hypocrisy on the Ivy League's part--trying to capitalize on the idealism of the Agreement and the materialism of the games themselves...
Even at the greatest of liberal arts colleges it is not possible to find this pure form of collegiate democracy in such a complete state. At Yale, in fact, those slightly academically or socially unaccepted students receive names such as "weenies" or "turkeys;" at Harvard they are occasionally dubbed "wonks;" and even at Wellesley students are apt to meet "Peter Pans." Yet at Tufts students are able to treat classmates with the type of mutual respect which eliminates such groups of the "unaccepted...
Compared to the tired cheeriness of many disk jockeys, Shepherd's offbeat humor is refreshing. Much of his talk is pure doubletalk, but some is shrewd, if cockeyed, comment from an educated comic (B.A., Maryland U.; M.A. in psychology, Indiana). The greatest thing America has to fear, he avers, is "creeping meatballism," i.e., "the adulation of all that is mediocre-the 'nothings' in the world that have become fads." In the day people v. night people conflict, the night people are in danger because the day folk-who "live in an endless welter of train schedules, memo...
...marshes, where oilmen have dredged passageways to float equipment into their fields and float oil barges back from the wells. Virtually every big company has fields, tank farms, refineries along its banks clear down to Corpus Christi-Texas Co., Standard Oil of N.J., Superior Oil, Magnolia, Kerr-McGee Pure Oil, Cities Service, Shell Oil, Gulf, Humble...