Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really a matter of conformity. The roar of the twenties was also a sort of conformity; the goldfish swallowing, the ukuleles, 'coon coats, and straw hats were standard gear in every college town from Des Moines of Hanover. But it was a standard of abnormally, and that was what made it delightful. The personality, the character, the eccentric were warmly welcomed in every group, on every campus. Novelty was pursued with feverish intensity; if you could discover a new way of spending time, flagpole sitting for instance, your reputation was immediately established. And, while girls were flapping and boys were...
...Disgraced. In a sense, it is an irony that the largest foundation of all should bear the name it does. Henry Ford was hardly the sort of man to agree with Carnegie that "the man who dies . . . rich dies disgraced." "Give the average man something," said Henry, "and you make an enemy of him." True enough, he and his son Edsel did have a small foundation which spent about $1,000,000 a year, but the money went mostly into such pet projects as restoring the Wayside Inn and the birthplace of Noah Webster. After his death and the death...
...Little Sense of Destiny. At N.Y.U. Heald faced a different sort of problem- a huge (35,000 students) university with six scattered campuses and only a faint sense of entity. Heald rallied the alumni for the first time, boosted their annual giving from $140,000 to $400,000 a year. He eliminated departmental duplication, persuaded students to consolidate their activities (e.g., the university had four student newspapers), raised $44.5 million, which was more than had come in in all the previous 25 years. But his real achievement was something more intangible: restoring to students, facultymen and alumni faith...
...Tommy Atkins returned from defending dominion over palm and pine, or simply when the poor little street-bred people clustered around the bandstand at Brighton, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance must ring out. Yet for all its imperial bombast, Elgar's best known composition also conveyed a sort of sweet innocence; compared to some of the marches it was soon to contend with-Communism's booming International or Nazi Germany's gutter hymn, the Horst Wessel Song-it lacked steel. It was really a recessional...
...able to find in Happy Knoll a microcosm of American society. The women are aggrievedly aggressive; the young are unruly and pampered; the dining-room help is incompetent; advertising men (speechwise, they are horrifying) are closing in; the club deficit mounts; free enterprise must sometimes be disguised with a sort of private welfare statism, as when the critical caddie shortage is solved by establishing the Caddies' Revolving Incentive Fund. And the rapacious golf pro, who year after year keeps promising his customers that their game will improve, is in a sense the guardian of the American dream. At Happy...