Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study American intellectualism, quasi intellectualism, pseudo intellectualism, and anti-intellectualism, I should like to add a qualifying remark to your most stimulating Essay [May 21]. A great deal of the "respect" you are talking about is paid not to the intellectuals but to the intellectual charlatans of a TV quiz-show type. The true intellectual, the quiet, original thinker who has the acumen and the courage of original thought, still receives only a trifle of the recognition paid to the pseudo intellectuals who often dominate the scene. If those criteria are applied, it becomes doubtful whether present-day America...
...team was back victorious, and Oregon was incredulous. OF Portland State had won not the Class D basketball crown or the Yukon curling final but television's G.E. College Bowl quiz, breaking all records and mopping up $10,500 in scholarships. With snap-snap-snap aplomb, the team had proved that it knew the word that means both monk and monkey (Capuchin), the doctor who pioneered the use of carbolic acid (Joseph Lister), the play that opens on the setting of the palace of Theseus in Athens (A Midsummer-Night's Dream), and 200 other facts...
...distinction is ending. In recognition of Portland State's rising academic standards, the Oregon Board of Higher Education gave the school the right to confer graduate liberal arts degrees. Currently the legislature is considering setting up a new state-supported graduate school. Now that the school's quiz kids have proved so bright, the chances are that Portland State will...
Chinese Students Face Loyalty Quiz--Millions of Communist Chinese students spent the few weeks cramming for a series of new and stricter tests of their "political reliability" before they can qualify for places in the country's overcrowded universities. The text they are studying is published by Peking's Ministry of Education and its title is, "Regulations for Entry into Institutions of Higher Learning," a formidable document which calls for a thorough examination of the political thinking of all university aspirants...
...thousands of Jews sat listening by their radios, many with Bible in hand. Jerusalem's big Convention Hall was jammed to its 3,000-seat capacity and, said an official, "We could have sold out the hall five times over." It was time for the third International Bible Quiz, a triennial event that has become an international institution in the land of Benjamin and Ben-Gurion...