Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY, by John Gunther. Reporter Gunther got inside Russia for a while, bludgeoned his way through stacks of other people's books about Russia and produced the best of his Inside testimonies. Surface-smooth, unclogged by deep thought, it gives the U.S. reader the best, most colorful and most painless report available of Khrushchev-land...
Yalies were considered "much less intellectual, conformists, gung ho." Princeton's Tigers were swept aside as "smooth, social-minded, definitely conformist...
...says Marty, these are "post-Protestant times." The particularism that once typified American church life has given way to what he calls "religion-in-general." The social and technological environment of the 20th century has acted "as a sort of cosmic Slenderella to polish the edges and smooth the roughness of religious particularity." Puritanism once dominated the U.S. attitude to religion, but "God is now offered in packaged, post-Calvinist, highly marketable forms. He is expected to baptize what is 'expedient' for man, to concur with man's reason and will...
Board Chairman Charles Silver advised at first that members forget about feuding with the Telegram, pointed out that there was much truth in Allen's series. But Board Member Francis Adams, former New York City police commissioner, was fighting mad, and smooth-talking Baptist Pastor Gardner Taylor, the board's only Negro member, smelled a race issue in Allen's statement that a 15-year-old John Marshall girl often played truant, spent her days as a Harlem prostitute. The board voted to investigate the affair, including, as Adams said pointedly, "the manner in which Allen...
Steelie. A permanent steel sander was put on sale by the Buckbee Mears Co., St. Paul, as an improvement over sandpaper. Named Steelie, the new sander uses etched and hardened carbon-steel sheets in rough and smooth finishes for the abrasive. Since the sanding surface is an integral part of the steel, it wears longer than sandpaper or other sanders with affixed abrasives, can be cleaned with a stiff brush or solvent. Price...