Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brother Babbitt. Thus have the winds of doctrine blown, each attracting its own set of followers. But for a large number of intellectuals, the outstanding basis of faith, the one standard with a truly universal appeal, is not any school of thought, but America herself. "An avowed aloof ness from national feeling," Lionel Trilling says, "is no longer the first ceremonial step into the life of thought . . . For the first time in the history of the modern American intellectual, America is not to be conceived of as a priori the vulgarest and stupidest nation of the world...
MIDWEST INVASION will be started by Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), first time world's biggest oil company has moved outside Eastern marketing area since an abortive attempt in the 1930s. First step will be purchase through stock exchange of Wisconsin's independent Pate Oil Co., operators of 140 filling stations in Milwaukee area with annual business of $12 million. Gas will not be sold under Esso label...
...whom Harding had exiled, reappeared in the news. Though the archbishop himself is kept under "light escort," his secretary, out for a stroll, evidently dropped a letter in a mailbox addressed to the editor of a Kenya newspaper. Unopened and uncensored, the letter reached Nairobi, where the East African Standard promptly printed its complaint: Makarios and his three clerical companions were being treated like criminals for no greater offense than "expression of our love of freedom." In London a red-faced Colonial Office spokesman admitted that the four churchmen had gone on a one-day hunger strike at their villa...
Laws and policemen, said the report, are right to "punish procuration, the keeping of brothels and offenses against decency," but sexual malpractice itself can in the end "only be defeated by education." A first step in the educational process, according to the churchmen, would be to erase "the double standard of sexual morality which condemns in women what it condones...
COFFEE PRICES, rising since last August, are jumping up again. With price boosts by middlemen, General Foods Corp. (Maxwell House, Sanka), Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn) and other big roasters are hiking prices between 2? and 4? per Ib. wholesale. Total price increase since August...