Word: basically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Crazy Profusion. Congress cranked out farm bills like sausages. In 1938, with the enactment of the new AAA, parity at last came into full bloom. It was restricted at first to a few basic crops (wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco, rice), and prices were pegged at a modest percentage of the value those crops brought in the nostalgic golden days of 1909-14. But it was not long before the law covered almost everything that springs from the earth and a goodly share of the products that are raised above it (e.g., eggs, butter, cheese, hogs, etc.). Such operators as tung...
...manner and appearance, 50-year-old, white-haired George Denny, a onetime dramatics instructor, is a cross between Harry Truman and Dale Carnegie. He had been moderator of the show since it began. He got the basic idea when he heard a neighbor say he'd "rather be caught dead than listen to Roosevelt on the radio." Denny, who grew up as a Democrat in North Carolina but voted Republican in the last few presidential elections, got to wondering: "How can we get our neighbors to listen to the other side...
...neglecting the esthetic side of education, Dr. Skinner taught some pigeons to peck out a tune on a simplified piano (i.e., the basic theme of Take Me Out to the Ball Game). Exploring his pigeons' personalities, he came to the conclusion that many were prone to superstition. They tended to repeat any action that had, in the past, produced food. Some became addicted to complicated rituals, hoping that twirlings and bowings, repeated in a fixed sequence, would yield a reward of food. Even when these actions had no effect, the pigeons clung to them hopefully...
BUCKLEY: It seems to me obvious that university trustees thought the country have been so badgered that many of them become convinced that it's not the job of an educational institution to have a policy about any basic issue. Instead, they allow the student to be taught everything, and then left to decide for himself what is the best course...
...thousands of undergraduates who--let me be the first to admit--are not leaving Yale and Socialists, but are leaving Yale without first a proper understanding of the benefits of free enterprise, and secondly and especially without having been taught the educational and moral necessity of adhering to certain basic American principles...