Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington makes no secret of its relief about the new West German mood. The greetings for Brandt last week, in fact, could scarcely have been more effusive. Vice President Humphrey, a first-name friend for years, invited him up to his new apartment for breakfast. As Brandt stepped out of his Mercedes limousine at the State Department, 15 Marines formed an honor guard, a tribute extended to no other foreign visitor in memory. Yet, despite the new air of easy friendliness, Washington has been warned that it will have to bargain hard with the "new" Bonn on at least...
Nearly half of Japan's 98 million citizens live within the Tokaido corridor. Yet there are patches of refreshing relief from the pressures of mankind: groves of gracefully pirouetting pines, solemn stands of cedar, miniaturized terraces redolent of tangerines and tea. A bone-rattling bus ride from Nagoya can put a harried city dweller aboard a boat on the Gifu River, where-with a giant bottle of sake and the boon companionship of a river geisha-he can watch the cormorant fisherman sweep downstream...
...Traffic Safety Agency issued its first set of federal automobile-safety standards. Acting Under Secretary of Commerce (for transportation) Lowell K. Bridwell described the 95 pages of rules and specifications as "reasonable, practicable and appropriate." The auto manufacturers, responding with a discreet public silence and a private sense of relief, seemed to agree...
...Last War of Olly Winter" Combined a sense of news-broadcast immediacy with Ivan Dixon's powerful portrayal of a Negro sergeant caught in a jungle skirmish. It brought back the best dramatic techniques of TV in the fifties, and was a welcome relief from the thirty-minute-plots we have become accustomed...
Hutchins resigned in 1950, much to the relief of many of his critics who doubted that students were really "being educated." But his departure was also regretted by many who enjoyed the spirit of independence which he had brought to the College. A humorous commentary on the controversy over Hutchins' policies is provided in a satire of the University of Chicago. The Dollar Diploma, written by Georg Mann in 1960. One faculty critic had this to say on what Mann termed Individualized Education...