Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nostalgia is a fine thing, but Fenway Park, once the quaint sanctum of the national pastime, now has a snazzy electronic instant replay board to keep the spectators from missing anything and moving baseball caps to keep pitchers from walking. Fans can lament the passing of real grass and the batting pitcher, but the Grand Old Game has gone the route of Playboy; the magazine is still around, but the presentation is not quite the same. This is show-biz, folks, less rehearsed and manipulated than TV or the movies, but big-time mass entertainment...
...executive, who is 44, seems a perfect choice for tandem harness with Paley. Brash Arthur Taylor had a homing instinct for the limelight; he could not be trusted to refrain from redecorating Paley's castle. But Backe is unassuming, efficient, extremely bright and content to be an inner-sanctum manager. "It isn't a matter of my letting Bill influence me," says he. "I do take his advice and we agree on most things." Backe cannot be called a CByes-man, adds one executive, "but he'd be insane if he'd start bucking Paley...
...there never was really any chance that incisive criticism or debate really would invade our great Sanctum of Superficiality. It would have been worse than sacriligious; it would have spoiled all the fun--you know, all the traditional fellow-felling. (We read Meredith's lips during the show calling Robards a "Greenwich Village fruit who promotes himself anyway he can, if you get my meaning.") That's what it looked like to us, at least...
...others, who may not be part of what Jerome A. Cohen, associate dean of the Law School, yesterday called the "inner sanctum" have served on small policy advisory task forces during the past months...
...many specialists-bacteriologists, virologists, parasitologists, rickettsiologists (for microbes that cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever), hematologists, lexicologists, and veterinarians. All the lab scientists and technicians wore protective masks, gowns and gloves and worked under exhaust hoods. But it was not felt necessary to invoke use of the sanctum sanctorum, the "hot lab," where only the deadliest organisms known to cause fast, fulminating and fatal diseases are handled...