Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student representative from the stage of realizing his fellows' indifference toward his service to that of irresponsible, self-centered action. Yet I wonder whether this reasoning was not carried too far and applied too broadly. To say that the responsible representative is a rare bird takes too little account, I think, of several important factors: First, there is no single group of "representatives;" a student who leads in one activity follows in most of the rest, and so never loses the sense of membership in the community. Secondly, and more important, the article takes too little account of the quiet...
...mean to be complacent, for the real problems raised in the article cannot be solved by any smug account of the achievements of extra-curricular groups at Harvard. Perhaps, however, the way to a solution lies in just those people who make up the great majority of student representatives--the exceptions to the rule of irresponsibility. Edward Segel...
...mixed up. The typical house, as Tass editors could have discovered if they had bothered to query their U.S. correspondents, is being built by All-State Properties, Inc. at Commack, N.Y., and will sell for $13,000, including a complete electric kitchen. Houses in the splitnik's category account for 27% of all new U.S. homes...
...sense, Wall Street is now paying for the success of its campaign to recruit small stockholders. Once a stockholder has an account, the high-priced blue chips that he first bought may seem pretty stodgy beside the greater gains possible in more speculative companies. He knows that top growth companies such as Polaroid and Texas Instruments, which have increased several hundred percent in a few years, were once considered risky. Says Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston: "We have no objection to people buying into small and little-known companies-provided they know what they are doing...
...King's War, 1641-1647, by C. V. Wedgwood. History is a people's memory, and few have summoned up Britain's more vividly than Historian Wedgwood in this scholarly account of Cavalier v. Roundhead...