Word: reassertion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...1960s, when the big crop of World War II babies comes of age, vastly expanding the U.S. labor supply, the secretary shortage should solve itself. But meanwhile, businessmen would do well to reassert hiring standards, loosen up on age restrictions. If they fail to do so, they may have forgotten how good a good secretary...
...Matching these concessions by trying to reassert Communist control over the farmers, Wladyslaw Gomulka appointed Politburo Member Edward Ochab (once called "a Communist with teeth" by Stalin) to take over the Ministry of Agriculture. Tough and toothy Ochab would have much to chew...
...with some--though not all--of the other major roles, the difficulties of the play reassert themselves. Bryan Falk's Claudius appears unnecessarily stiff. Certainly the King should be regal, but that need not restrict the actor who portrays him to the single tone level and rate of delivery. Somewhat the same is true of Robert Jordan, in the part of Laertes. He tends to speak too fast to let his lines be readily understood. Lisa Rosenfarb, the Queen, happily avoids these mistakes. She speaks poetry perhaps better than anybody else in the cast. But in the other aspects...
...Guard still maintains its influence despite the President's view, it is sure to reassert itself through Mr. Richard Nixon should the President pass on. A New Nixon is supposed to have emerged. But the Vice-President's ability to change his principles at any time makes him even more frightening than any disagreeable, but principled conservative. Nixon in the White House would seem subject to every political breeze, no matter how ill its direction...
...Citadel of Learning is neither particularly original nor notably well argued. Two of the three essays are from speeches given last year when the German ambassador was apparently more concerned with tanks than textbooks. They attempt in a rather general way to reassert the virtues of independent research and rigorous instruction. The third essay is written especially for the book, but it cannot be accused of originality, since it consists almost entirely of rehabilitated Conant programs, most of which have been better stated elsewhere...