Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...articles appear in magazines ranging from the Ladies' Home Journal to TV Guide, and his features flicker on the tube from Today to Tonight, expressing, all in one, the horn-rimmed wisdom of the scholar, the sophistication of balding middle age-and the omniscient satisfaction of the eternal Quiz Kid. By this time, in short, the average American would be less than average unless he knew all about Arthur Schlesinger...
...campus, ranging from President Johnson, who spoke there on a war-on-poverty tour in May 1964, to the late Protestant theologian Paul Tillich. The university's select "Ohio Fellows," 30 members of each class chosen for their potential as future public leaders, have been able to quiz such officials as Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Alden has also defended the right of U.S. Nazi Leader George Lincoln Rockwell to be heard on campus, as well as the right of students to protest the Viet Nam war. His personal view, however...
...Among others scheduled this season are TIME Guides to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Great Society, the Negro in America, the New Canada, Red China, Economics/ Food/Population, and a Calendar of World Religions. The guides are interspersed with a Cover Collection and monthly news quizzes, including a Vacation Review Quiz, a 100-question Current Affairs Test, and the Year-End Review. All this, of course, is supplementary to TIME itself, now used as a "contemporary textbook" by thousands of teachers in the U.S. and abroad...
...psych is the commuter carefully tallying his "compatibility quotient" in a newspaper quiz ("Do you resist asking directions in a strange town?"). It is the applicant for a new job checking True or False on a personality test ("I have strange and peculiar thoughts." "I have never seen a vision"). Pop-psych is found in heavy-breathing advice to the lovelorn, warning girls to beware of their father fixations. It is in the domestic-advice columns telling the anxious mothers of bed-wetters that the children are resenting their "free-flowing" permissiveness. The "psychosomatic" cold and eating to "compensate" have...
...hands out Hollywood-type Oscars to supersalesmen. "They go over particularly well with the womenfolk," he says. Each planeload of 160 husbands and wives is briefed on next year's line of refrigerators on the way over. On the way back across the Pacific, the travelers take a "quiz in the clouds" about what they have learned. Nobody flunks...