Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike its namesake and predecessor, the Yale version of Criterion has neither the polish nor the significance of Eliot's bauble. Unsophisticated, often trite, frequently ill-though-out, and almost never really original, it is still potentially one of the best things to happen to Yale since godandman departed...
...symptom, with all the pejorative connotations of that word. But if there is no overt expression of belief, if we are indeed what Van Wyck Brooks ('08) calls "the silent generation," then the task of formulation becomes doubly difficult for the eccentric minority not adapted to anomie. Criterion can hope to eliminate this secondary problem, although it is not likely to have much success with the first, better minds having already spent their better years in better journals with the problem...
...Criterion", according to its statement of purpose, "provides an open forum where students at Yale can learn how their contemporaries are attempting to formulate values for living." Unfortunately, it is just as methodological as the words indicate. Of three articles in the first issue, only one--by a divinity student--professes any belief. The other two are rather ineptly devoted to the arguments for belief, and analysis of techniques used in arriving...
...Criterion will be a good thing only if it arouses violent criticism, and stimulates the expression of anatgonistic conceptions. If Criterion induces the Yale undergraduate (or anybody else) to spend a little less time in his blue sweater and a little more in introspection and verbalization, it will be a good thing. If, however, it leads the contributors to the self-satisfied assurance of "having been published," it will be a real misfortune, for the material as such warrants no such conplacency on the part of either authors or editors...
Under mounting public criticism, the Truman Administration set up the Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security to study the whole loyalty system. In April 1952, the Committee recommended that the government establish one encompassing program based on "suitability" or general fitness for federal employment. Such a criterion would have regularized the security procedure and enabled the government to suspend an employee without undue damage to his personal reputation...