Word: allows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientifically-minded student described the effects of pot in terms of what our eyes allow themselves to see. "Normally the eyes are distracted by hundreds of different lights and objects, but only single out the important ones for consideration by the intellect. Pot removes this selectivity, and our eyes send indiscriminate signals to the brain. The result is that we perceive things in a completely novel fashion...
Heavy Artillery. Perhaps the Senator should have done that in the first place. As it was, his unsolicited comments brought on a blizzard of criticism. The uproar was provoked by Kennedy's statement that the allies should allow the Viet Cong "a share of power and responsibility" in Saigon's government. "If negotiation is our aim," he had said, "we must seek a middle ground. A negotiated settlement means that each side must concede matters that are im portant in order to preserve positions that are essential." In other words, one way to end the war might...
...death and disaster today lean too often toward the narcissistic, reflecting images of themselves as helpless heroes in a world they can neither take nor leave. Their less lugubrious colleagues, on the other hand, have been all too willing to cede the comic to the journalists and to allow the commercial to override the classic. In the end, they have left a society almost without true humorists, making it vulnerable and vain, like a great man without a sense of humor...
...remembered that the primary reason for liberalizing the 20-student limit on off-campus living is to alleviate over-crowding on campus. Ironically, there are also students living off-campus who have been refused permission to move into the Houses because of overcrowding. By increasing the number of students allowed off-campus, the Administration could reduce crowding and move closer to its ideal of giving each student his own bedroom. The most rational solution for the transitional period would be to allow students to live off-campus until there is no more overcrowding in the Houses. When the tenth House...
...debate's end, seven of the nine councillors signed a Commonwealth bill that would allow the City to raise its hospital debt limit $3 million above its current $6 million level...