Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frank H. Westheimer, Research Professor of Chemistry, received the largest individual grant, $42,000. Others to benefit from the Foundation grants include George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Herbert W. Levi, Associate Curator of Arachnology; R. Duncan Luce, lecturer on Social Relations; Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Chairman of the Institute for Research in Experimental and Applied Botany...
...officer firmly told him that he must use the front door because "a commander must be seen by his troops." Nor has Norstad's youthful appetite for rest disappeared. Though he and Hawaii-born Isabelle Norstad, slim and chic in her Balmain gowns, cannot escape a hectic official social whirl, Norstad makes a ferocious effort to schedule two or three nights a week at home. He ducks off to Berchtesgaden for a weekend's fishing, plays golf when he has a chance, delights in his hi-fi set (Fairchild amplifier and pickup, Tannoy speaker), which he plays...
Sayonara (Warner) is a modern version of Madame Butterfly which has gained in social significance but lost its wings-Puccini's music...
...MERCHANT OF PRATO, by Iris Origo. A biography of a 14th century Tuscan merchant reconstructed from bales of letters and ledgers. What could have become a dreary recital is in fact a shrewd look at an early capitalist, a fine piece of social history and a graceful piece of writing...
This does not, of course, mean that everybody who clothes his findings in the bad-awful jargon-gibberish of the social scientists is contributing to the sum total of huamn knowledge by giving his insights form. He must also have something to say which is not intuitively obvious to his readers. The only possible excuse for this specialized vocabulary is that it embodies concepts which cannot be given the same precision in everyday vocabulary...