Word: particularization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Republican was a word that was not on the tip of his tongue. Although his political instincts have been very sure, Eisenhower was not a professional politician experienced in the operation of party machinery. He found many of the day-to-day troubles of the party tedious, and. in particular, he loathed the problem of patronage. The President never surrounded himself with assistants who could solve political problems with professional skill. Except in the case of certain members who happened to be proficient golfers, there has not been any true comradeship between the White House and the Republicans in Congress...
...More Romance? This fits in with another pet Toynbee thesis. Agricultural civilization, which tied man down to a parcel of land and produced the territorial type of community, is being replaced, Toynbee theorizes, by a "mechanical-industrial dispensation," which "resembles the food-gathering and hunting one in a significant particular. In contrast to the cultivator of the soil, the aboriginal Australian food gatherer and the ultramodern immigrant Australian or American industrial worker are like each other in both being rootless ... If we want a label for the now dawning third age of human history, we can call it equally well...
...each of the five plants the Government hopes to develop the most efficient method to meet the needs of a particular area. Since the Government's project started eight years ago, the cost of converting sea water has dropped steeply from around $5.00 per 1,000 gallons to about $1.75. Says Dr. A. L. Miller, director of the office of saline water: "For the future, conversion of salt water may be more important to the arid areas of the world than getting a man to the moon...
Forty is the age of saints and suicides, according to Critic Cyril Connolly. Neither the idea nor the particular fates would ever have occurred to Maynard Wallace ("Wink1') Marshall, an urbane NBS nightly newscaster whose voice-charmed life demonstrates "how well a reasonably brainy man can do if he just doesn't use his brains.'' However. Wink does have an age problem, and it is all tied up with sex and suburbia...
...Nebraska ever looked like that." But of all capitol finials, none has had a sadder career than Hartford's Genius of Connecticut. When she was one year old in 1879. an ungallant Manhattan critic wrote of her: "She is the old conventional Greek woman with no clothing in particular about the upper part of her body, and a great deal more than is necessary about the lower half. She is devoid of expression." Years later, the publisher of the Hartford Courant, having heard that Genius' footing was getting shaky, is said to have observed: "We are faced with...