Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the high-riding westerns and the downbeat singers reflect a certain hardening of TV's arteries. The formats have jelled; the entertainment too often looks as mass-produced as the receivers. Production has shifted steadily to Hollywood, where the film factories grind out series after series like links of sausage. Despite its uneven quality this season, Playhouse go proves that Hollywood TV can turn out good live drama as well. But with the move of CBS's Studio One to Hollywood this month, live TV drama has lost almost the last of the roots that nourished...
...their eminence in science, only three were found to be Catholics." A 1952 study of American Men of Science showed that of 50 institutions turning out the most scientists, not one was Catholic. "I certainly take no delight in disturbing your minds with such humiliating evidence. We could, however, reflect upon many other facts to show that the 35 million Catholics of this country and our Catholic educational system are not producing anywhere near their proportion of leaders. Of the 96 U.S. Senators, there are, for example, only ten Catholics; of the 50 so-called business leaders announced by Forbes...
...Catholics, said Cavanaugh, cannot take much comfort in rationalizing that they are a minority group, an immigrant people, usually from modest homes. "At once, we reflect that the Jews are an immigrant people, very often from modest homes. They must fight bigotry, but the Jews are producing leaders far out of proportion to their numbers...
...action appeared to reflect what many say is a sharp decline of U.S. prestige in Indonesia...
...with the changing party line, some science and mathematics textbooks have become so "stabilized" as to be "ossified." The most widely used algebra text, for instance, was published in 1888, has undergone only minor revisions since. Even Soviet experts have publicly protested that "the book fails fully to reflect modern science," yet it is still...