Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perkins felt that the answer to overcrowding would be better overcome if the College "cut back" so that "you can fit" students in the Houses. The University," he maintained, "should gear admissions to the equipment it's got to handle...
This view was seconded by Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster, who also looked dimly on letting people move out of the Houses. "I'm all for keeping people in the Houses," he asserted, adding that the answer to overcrowding was that "we simply have to get room, and not let people move...
...students), new high school, Robert Marschner, 49, of Homewood, 111., 25 miles outside of Chicago, wanted to do things right. What, he asked himself, are the outstanding secondary schools in the U.S. that would serve as models? Since no one seemed able to give him a satisfactory answer, he drew up a list of his own: those schools that in the last two years produced 20 or more finalists in the National Merit Scholarship race. Not a complete criterion, Marschner admitted, but "far better than nothing." Then he wrote to the principals to find out what makes a good school...
...searching for a doctrine to shore up their nation of Taoists, Buddhists and Christians against surrounding Communism. To Vietnamese officials, Buddhism and Taoism seemed too vague and personal to combat Marxism, and the Western ethos was still too alien. The teachings of Confucius (551-479 B.C.) looked like the answer. With its adoration of knowledge, its rigid pattern of family life, its elaborate ritual for such everyday acts as pouring tea and laying place-mats, Confucianism still has strong practical appeal in chaotic Asia. And because it is not a religion but a philosophy-it does not deal with theology...
...Martin's mother Nella, a blonde beauty who looks "exactly like the women pictured in the Nazi books about race-only not so boring." drifts through the years giving and going to dull parties. It seems to her that she is endlessly playing in an endless movie. People answer the phone the way actors do in second-rate films; they smoke, quarrel, make love or small talk, sit and stand and posture just as if a director were cueing every scene...