Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...POPULAR European belief holds that all Americans are alike because the stern dictates of U.S. mass production leave no room for individuality. But mass production has changed so radically in recent years that the U.S. consumer now has a bewildering variety of goods to choose from-in cars (more than 2,000,000 combinations), even in TV sets (at least 400 varieties) and martinis. Is this really good for the U.S. consumer-and for business? See BUSINESS, Too Many Models...
...Merina kings was Andrianampoinimerina ("The Prince desired by the Merina"), who ruled from 1787 until 1810. Riding in state about his kingdom in a purple-draped palanquin, he divided the country up into well-administered provinces, organized a corps of professional civil servants. His warrior son Radama I-a stern disciplinarian who would warn his soldiers, "Better to advance and risk being killed by the enemy than to retreat and be sure of being burned alive"-carried on his work. He imported British soldiers to train his army, welcomed the schools of French and British missionaries. But his successors began...
...tasting catastrophe, he warned of an "iron half-century" in which everything-"from television to partisanship, from jukeboxes to self-delusion"-must surrender to the "stern requirements of independence and survival." "All is lost." he cried at a 1954 New Year's party to a friend offering him felicitations of the season. In The Reporter's Trade, a collection of Alsop columns-some authored or co-authored by his younger brother Stewart -which will be published Nov. 19, he sinks up to his foulard tie in despond...
WILLIAM M. JOHNSON Chicago Sir: When some day Governor Faubus stands before a tribunal to be adjudged for his disgusting actions, I hope the presiding judge is of the caliber of London's stern but humanistic Mr. Justice Salmon...
...work in the Protestant and Catholic chapels. And, more important, it is evident in students' concerns. The Beacon, a UCI journal, features a book review of J.C. Amamoo's The New Ghana and an editorial on the recent conference of the eight independent African states, concluding with a stern protest to the French government should it carry out its proposal to test atomic weapons in the Sahara...