Word: supplant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tough Culture. Just as obsolete are most conventional notions about teen agers, a word invented in the U.S. and popularized scarcely 25 years ago to supplant such earlier images as the carefree Huck Finn type, the early-to-work Horatio Alger model and the heavily psychological "adolescent" of three decades back. It was the culmination of the process by which, as Sociologist Denney points out, the U.S. became the first nation to transform children from "a family asset as labor to a family liability as student-consumer." That liability is one that the U.S. seems willing to afford...
...understand that this ideal must yield to the goal of specialization? Is Newman's "Idea of a University" now outmoded--is "Useful Knowledge" to supplant "Liberal Knowledge?" Will Harvard now dilute the humanistic ideal of "a Knowledge, which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor" by stressing vocational training through specialization? Is it now time to de-emphasize a tradition which fostered greatness in men such as Emerson, Thoreau, T.S. Eliot, William James, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, and John Kennedy...
Thimann, the first Head appointed under the Radcliffe House system, originated the concept of Judicial Boards to supplant the Board of Hall Presidents. The scheme, he said last night, was formed out of his desire "to provide bridges between staff and students...
None of this means that "learn, learn, learn" is about to supplant "fight, fight, fight" on U.S. campuses. From Anchors Aweigh to All Hail Alaska, the college song is still uniquely American. Britons save their tears for school songs like Harrow's Forty Years On. Oxbridge has s no official songs whatever. Germans I and Frenchmen sing of beer and wine...
...reply in kind." Now that he is editor-publisher of Cleveland's 121-year-old Plain Dealer (circ. 336,210) -a job he was named to earlier this month-Tom Vai1,36, hopes to reply to his competition not only in kind but in spades. His goal: to supplant the afternoon Press (376,630) as the biggest paper in Cleveland and all of Ohio...