Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appears all but impossible for anyone to stop the U.S.'s ever-longer leaps into space. Billions will be spent, and possibly billions will be wasted. But the performance of men in U.S. space capsules of the future will be measured not only in money. If they accomplish little else, they will renew for millions a vision of victory for the human spirit-just as Gordon Cooper did in Faith...
Michael Reiss contributes what must be, for those involved in it, a controversial proposal about students who visit mental patients. Reiss maintains that volunteers who merely strike up friendships with inmates don't accomplish nearly so much as those who make an effort to lead patients back to normal life. Apparently there is a professional dispute over the competence of volunteers to help "cure" the marginally insane. Reiss claims that his experience in the woefully undermanned, underfinanced state hospital system proves that no other group besides volunteers is able to restore patients' confidence in their capacity to live outside. Reiss...
...best claim that a college education can possibly make on your respect, the best thing it can aspire to accomplish for you is this: that it should help you to know a good man when you see him. William James...
...James did sit still long enough to accomplish something. Undeniably he belongs to the first rank of American philosophers. And his status in the behavioral sciences is, if anything, more exalted: most recent commentators regard him as the greatest psychologist in the history of this country. When the new building for the behavioral sciences was approved, the decision to commemorate James in its names was very nearly a foregone conclusion. Currently, moreover, the bookshops bear witness to a spirited revival of interest in his writings...
...Liberal program, and Pearson became a more formidable parliamentary antagonist. For a time he had held back, in a conviction more appropriate to a historian than to an Opposition leader, feeling that the Diefenbaker Government was entitled, because of its vast popular vote, to an unhampered right to accomplish its promises. But when Diefenbaker proved surprisingly weak in office, moody and suspicious of his colleagues and subordinates, embroiling Canada with its old friend Britain over the Common Market and antagonizing its U.S. neighbor by its waffling on defense, Pearson satisfied himself that the Diefenbaker Government "has done a terrible...