Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following Washington's advice about "entangling alliances" the Student Council withdrew from the National Student Association, a move which aroused student apathy. A few weeks later, the first of several questionable elections was held, and nearly half of the college voted on the issue, some perhaps more times than others...
...offers integrity, the life of the businessman and the life of the professor have become less and less distinct. The professor is no longer to be regarded as a stuffy fellow. He has become a man of the world, perhaps traveling on an expense account, attending a conference in Washington one day and flying to a UNESCO meeting in Paris the next. In honor of his new status, novels now portray him as having sex appeal and even a lurid sex life." ¶ Academic salaries have not followed the professorial flight to worldliness-and the unworldliness...
...absolutely nothing for the theater." Translation: a likely Broadway hit (opening Feb. 5), with advance sales already past $1,000,000. The story: something about a dreamy London chick (Verdon), working in a turn-of-the-century waxworks, who gets tied up with a U.S. vaudeville strong man. In Washington, the Daily News's Critic Tom Donnelly called Redhead "a mad blend of Agatha Christie and Mack Sennett...
...required, with the Government's share around $150 million to $200 million, the rest coming from industry. Against this, the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy had proposed $250 million to $275 million. The difference could be partly met by switching money already in the AEC budget. But Washington guessed that if AEC Chairman McCone vigorously pursues the advice he solicited, he will have to fight with the Budget Bureau for more civilian reactor funds...
...Belief in Disbelief. In the first third of the book, Author Griffith offers his autobiographical press pass to American life. Seattle-born, Griffith had a boardinghouse boyhood more apt for the pen of Dickens than the brush of Norman Rockwell. Entering the University of Washington in the Depression year of 1932 as a journalism student, he learned, he admits, precious little about journalism or anything else. In such "vast, endearingly inadequate academic ballparks," Griffith argues, "the indulgent curse of mediocrity in American life begins...