Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that graciousness which can adorn her unique role as housewife," is manifested a positively terrifying distortion as damnable as any "Madison Avenue glorification of domestic details." Methinks you have cerebralized too much. A bit of objective rationality, in plain English, horsesense, is in order. Perhaps we intellectuals can afford to conceive of marriage and homelife as a great graduate school in the sky where "important opportunities (lie) open to the housewife," and where we can simply eat up graciousness and creativity...
Marriage is not a "career" complete with vocational files and applications. It is not to be accepted or rejected at the close of one's college years like law school, nor evaluated in terms of what advantages it will afford you since hopefully it exists for mutual benefit. Moreover, she who combines home and vocation in comfortably adjusted portions usually ends up with the least neurotic children. Having a family is no intellectual prostitution...
...cosmopolitan way, of course, Harvard is strikingly provincial, and we expect there will be a flury of indignant questions: Why should anyone think he can learn more in Europe than at Harvard? Why let people fritter away a year at a lax foreign university? How can a student afford to miss junior tutorial, so necessary to passing general examinations...
Communism remains our No. 1 obstacle to peace, and I know that all Americans will join with you in honest solutions to these problems." The President had replied in good nature that he could well afford: "I thank you for your expressed desire to cooperate in the work that faces us all in the days and weeks ahead." Sundown & a Cedar Fire. Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey, just ar rived at the ranch from Minneapolis, clumped gamely along at Johnson's side, wearing a pair of size 1 1 cowboy boots on his size 8 feet and a five...
According to Yale legend, a scholarship to that school awaits any son of an Indian maharajah who cannot afford his own elephant to carry him about the campus. Eccentrically conditioned scholarships, though deplored by colleges, open some novel opportunities at this time of year, when the only thing harder than getting into college is getting into college cost paid. Even at schools such as Harvard, where liberal-minded donors have piled up a sizable dollar pool that any needy student can dip into, restricted funds are still accepted and awarded on the theory that they release unrestricted money...