Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Hubbard's is the only piece of original journalism in the issue, the Lampoon has printed stories by two unique fiction writes. Good-bye Bellaphone by Douglas Bunce, for instance, is representative of the newest trend in short stories. It is confusing, obscure, and very difficult to finish. And the other story, The Great American Novel by John Train, is quite puzzling, although in this case there is enough fast-moving action to make the piece interesting on the first level...
...presidential elections since 1900, Ohio has gone Republican seven times, Democratic six times. In the past five presidential elections, it has gone Democratic in four. Harry Truman carried it in 1948 with 7,107 votes, out of a total vote of nearly 3,000,000. Contrary to the Democratic trend in presidential voting, Ohio has two G.O.P. Senators and 16 of its 23 Congressmen are Republican. Although it lies entirely in the eastern time zone of the U.S., Ohio's character is primarily Midwestern and its political temper is more conservative than that of most industrial states. The most...
...jobs is steadily bringing the island's top-heavy maritime economy into better balance. An estimated 15,000 fishermen have come in from the sea to earn an easier, better living inshore. With fewer hands to man it, the fishing industry itself is being forced to modernize. The trend is to big diesel craft instead of the old dory trawlers, and to fresh-frozen fish packing instead of the wearying process of salting cod by hand...
...group reiterates the Association's trend toward de-emphasis when it states "recruitment of students with athletic abolity must follow the generally accepted pattern for all students. The first essential qualification is acceptable academic ability...
...serious consequences of the pressures of this period of rearmament is the diversion of scholars to immediate problems. Partial mobilization has accentuated the trend toward overemphasis on the practical which is a consequence of the type of society in which we live. For example, in the biological sciences the clamor is for a cure for cancer rather then an understanding of the processes of growth normal and abnormal. In the physical sciences some of our best men are now spending long hours on military problems. This is a national necessity, but a loss to the advance of science. Technology...