Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mere intellectual arrogance to point out to a Harvard student that the life is being squeezed out of him; if it's true for him he should know that on his own. The arrogance involved in believing that one is qualified to set up external conditions which will allow another man to humanize himself is even greater. To justify disruption, the romantic must subscribe to the unlikely argument that undergraduates have been in some psychological sense blind, and that once a strike ends, they will emerge greatly changed...
...high quality does not, of course, allow the Houghton to be complacent: but it does allow it breathing space in which to ponder a more serious question that confronts it: that of its role within the University and, implicitly, the community. Many people have recently proposed that Harvard make greater efforts to involve the people of Cambridge in its intellectual life and specifically that it make the resources of its libraries more accessible to the public...
Each setback in the war brought the same reaction from Hitler: "We can only go forward. The bridges behind us are broken." The Führer belabored his generals openly as "notorious liars as well as notorious cowards," and took charge of the war himself. He refused to allow Speer to build jet fighters to defend Germany against Allied aircraft, wanted jet bombers instead to attack the enemy. He persuaded Speer to develop the V-2 rocket. "It was probably one of the greatest errors I made," Speer writes. "We should have concentrated our efforts on the production...
...Four Risk. A single defective Tay-Sachs gene cannot afflict its carrier with the disease. The paired, normal gene orders the production of enough Hex-A to allow the necessary brain-cell metabolism. But if both parents carry a Tay-Sachs gene, there is a one-in-four risk that the baby will receive two abnormal genes-one from each parent-and succumb to the disease. If he receives only one, his body will produce less Hex-A than it should, but he will be able to lead a normal life. Like his parents, of course, he will...
...part of its benefits for middle-income individuals, the House bill would reduce basic income tax rates enough to grant $2.4 billion of relief after ten years and allow taxpayers who do not itemize deductions to take a standard maximum deduction of $2,000, or 15% of their income. They are now allowed only 10%, or $1,000. To allow the higher deduction, Kennedy said, would give an undesirable "double benefit" to middle-income taxpayers. To avoid that, he would raise the standard maximum deduction only to 12%, or $1,400. As for taxpayers near the poverty line, Kennedy proposed...