Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Angular Rhombus. Government Geologist George W. Swindel, who happened to be making a water survey in the neighborhood, saw the helicopter and the excited crowds milling around. Steered to Mayor Howard's office, he examined the black stone and pronounced it "a smooth, angular rhombus* with some of its corners broken off." The material inside was iron grey. Scrapings tested with hydrochloric acid gave the rotten egg odor of hydrogen sulphide. Swindel consulted Kemp's Handbook of Rocks and cautiously decided that the stone fitted the description of meteorites "of the sulphide type." Then the helicopter crew took...
Since the Masters are unable to smooth the inequities of the room rent pattern, the price schedule should be on a simple plane, with room rent, like tuition and board, charged at a single rate. The equalized rent would greatly simplify room distribution, for suite assignment would no longer meet financial barriers. Rooms could be assigned to sophomores by lot; then students who wished to move in their junior and senior years could choose from the rooms vacated graduating seniors...
...modern society Dr. Lindner sees "nothing which does not require the young to conform, to adjust, to submit." Along with religion and education he lumps social work, which aims to smooth rough-edged personalities so that they will not rub too harshly on their fellows; also philosophy, recreation and pediatrics: "Each is infused with the rot-producing idea that the salvation of the individual, and so of society, depends upon conformity and adjustment." Thus, in harsher terms, rebellious Psychologist Lindner reaches much the same diagnosis as Social Scientist David Riesman (TIME, Sept. 27), who calls the pattern of the times...
...Orthodox rabbis, the Conservatives' new body was an unwanted and unnecessary growth on the smooth perfection of the Law. Said honorary Union President Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of Manhattan's West Side Institutional Synagogue: "Regardless of the well-meaning intention of those who initiated the attempt ... it is a departure from traditional procedure and practice accepted by the bulk of Jewry, and it should not and cannot be recognized by the loyal adherents to Judaism...
There are other bright notes. P. H. C. Williams' "Yale Weekend 1954" is cleverly whimsical, and the Blot-Jester dialogue jabs gently at the Yale Record in the usual lucid style of the department. Best of all in the issue is a smooth study of an intemporate Uncle Charlie. The author, RDH, is otherwise unidentified in the issue, however, which would suggest that the article has been reprinted from a past issue...