Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood has suddenly discovered that movies with a social theme pay. Films like "Gentleman's Agreement," "Lost Boundaries," "Pinky," "Crossfire," and many others have rapped racial and religious intolerance. The reason why the problem drama's trans-continental trip has taken 15 years is found chiefly in the moviemakers" ultra-conservative concept of public taste, as well as in their own intellectual immaturity and indifference. But now that they have fund that social evil means cash in the till, these Hollywood producers are all for exposing...
...type of problems considered, however. Broadway's plays were chiefly dramas of the evils existing in our economic system. Hollywood had been attacking bigotry-a stand that is commendable, but hardly controversial in most parts of the country. In other words, the movie industry has really escaped from ultra-conservatism to mere conservatism...
What makes medical education so expensive is the fact that the course of instruction takes place for the most part in the hospital or the laboratory--not in the lecture hall. To provide adequate training, the laboratory must have the ultra -centrifuges, the autoclaves, and numerous thermostatic devices that are necessary in biological chemistry. But more than that, the school must pay many more instructors per student than any other kind of education. In most medical schools, the faculty is equal to or exceeds the student body...
...Louis, two other Protestant churches took a cautious step toward what they hope will eventually be a happy marriage. The ultra-conservative Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (membership: 1,690,000) and the middle-of-the-road American Lutheran Church (membership: 689,310) announced an "agreement on doctrine," subject to approval of the two churches' national conventions. Said Dr. William Arndt of the Missouri Synod: "There may be some details of the unification that will have to be worked out later, but at least this is a start...
...rare vigor, eschewed frills and cliches, wasted no time in getting to the heart of what mattered. He was an individualist of a rare kind: he wanted other people to be individualists too. He will be missed, if only because he kept begging modern man not to become an ultra-modern slave...