Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King of the Cowboys! Out into center ring rode Roy Rogers, 53, handsomely astride a white circus-trained stallion. He should have stayed on Trigger. Appearing with the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Greensboro, N.C., Roy got saddled with a spirited nag that objected to Western spurs. Or perhaps it was the way Roy sat the English saddle. The stallion reared and a crowd of 6,000 gasped as the King, like any dude, tumbled off, landing on his rump in the sawdust...
...Iowa Civil Liberties Union discussed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, perhaps on the ground that the decision violated Painter's religious freedom. Painter himself was bitter. "What they've said," he commented, "is that if parents don't conform to a middle-class Middle Western mode of living, they face loss of their children. By that standard, several million Americans would have to give up their kids. I don't drive a hay wagon, I don't go to church on Sunday, I don't grow corn in my backyard...
...from Britain, American churchmen had mixed feelings about U.S. entry into the war. One of the most outspoken advocates of the Allied cause was Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, a onetime pacifist who had come to see that stance as "utopianism" in the face of Nazism's threat to Western civilization. With a group of like-minded thinkers, Niebuhr founded a biweekly journal of Christian opinion to oppose the prevailing pacifism of church leaders and to relate the Gospel message to problems of war and peace...
...make sure that the young doctor's necessarily incomplete information is still adequate, several schools have begun to turn their curriculums inside out. Instead of teaching a few subjects intensively in unwieldy, time-consuming blocks (anatomy all through the first year, pathology in the second), Western Reserve University began as long ago as 1952 to slice the four standard years into three functional phases. It also took the revolutionary step of assigning each freshman student to a pregnant patient, to serve as assistant to all the doctors who care for her and her family for the next two years...
Many aspects of Western Reserve's reforms have since been adopted by other schools, and last month Dean Douglas D. Bond announced that the Cleveland progressivists already consider their system outdated. They want to break down the big blocks of time still further-mix them so that students will learn more bedside medicine in their first year and get more basic science in upper-class years...