Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commands little attention merely because it is new, or different. The intolerance of this aspect of Harvard's provincialism is demonstrated by the refusal to discuss matters on any but one's own terms, on the theory that they are the only possible ones in which the subject in question can be considered. This superiority accounts for the scorn with which the naivete of many a Freshman has been greeted, to be transformed soon into a smooth scepticism, or perhaps an even more knowing cynicism...
...other end of Canada, labor unions were also about to get some lumps. In British Columbia, where strike-prone unions accounted for 17% of all man-days lost in Canada last year, the ruling Social Credit party introduced a bill that would make unions legal entities subject to civil suits for damages resulting from strikes. The proposed law would also ban sympathy picket lines, blacklisting of companies, boycotts of goods turned out by nonunion labor...
...Mason, sometime actress (The Upturned Glass), authoress (A Lady Possessed), had carved such a successful career on her ad-lib shows with her sharp tongue that Comedian Jack Benny paid her the ultimate compliment: a well-rehearsed part as an "ad-lib" panelist in his TV satire on the subject. The show itself proved mainly that Pamela is no straight player. "I've always had a tendency to talk too much," she concedes. "I may as well enjoy it." That she does...
...executives had sought a Silver Hill emotional inventory on their own initiative; since the plan was made formal, ten more have already signed up. Admissions are usually arranged through corporation heads and medical directors, never without a physician's referral. The subject's colleagues and family supply background data before his visit. He is expected to show up for Sunday dinner, stay until Saturday afternoon. In those six days he gets a thorough going-over by psychologists and psychiatrists, but no hint of psychoanalysis-there is not a couch in the place. The only strict rule: every subject...
...including musical instruments, 10,000 books, office equipment, a "miracle" kitchen, and a model U.S. house split down the middle so that Russians can walk between the halves. Two features particularly aimed at improving Russian knowledge of the U.S.: seven movie screens simultaneously showing different images on the same subject (e.g., seven views of supermarkets, highway cloverleafs), with a commentary in Russian; an IBM RAMAC brain that will give electronic answers-printed in Russian-to such questions about the U.S. as "How much butter was consumed last year...