Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would deny that Cambridge politics are unusual, and it is one of its oddest phenomena that the local form of government apparently discourages the entrance of issues in a rountine campaign. If there is a scandal, as at the 1957 elections, that can become an important issue; but in a quiet year, few candidates are heard debating each other on the relative merits of their positions...
...because of the frightening traffic, "Many of the famous monuments have become, quite literally, invisible, for lack of a spot from which they can be viewed with safety." And it is maddeningly true that "As for the museums, they are the worst-organized, the worst-hung in Italy-a scandal, as the Florentines say themselves, with a certain civic pride." With these strictures out of the way, there begins a portrait of former glories and calamities that combines a meticulous observation of the past and the art that has outlived it with some of the year's most readable...
...Doren (TIME cover, Feb. n, 1957) had seemed the finest product of American education, character, family background and native intelligence. Could it be that all or much of that picture had been sham? That was the most disturbing question raised by last week's Washington hearings on the scandal of the television quiz shows...
...ORLEANS, La., Oct. 16--President Frank Stanton of the Columbia Broadcasting System, announced Friday all big-money quiz shows will be eliminated from his television network. He said the quiz show scandal has given all broadcasting a black...
...member of the Sun staff said he "doubted that, in real life, football players are connected with the scandal," although they consider the investigation "an invasion of their privacy...