Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find an answer it is necessary to go to the section on student discipline, where it is urged that student governments should consider any problems that concern students, including those of curriculum. While the Junior Prom-cheering at games type of Council subject may be more common, the report obviously favors reaching into subjects like educational policy, for at still another place it urges "Students should be offered opportunity to participate in the total work of the educational institution...
...group agreed to give up on such men of ill will as would not pay Council pledges and passed to another topic, that of a ride bureau. This bureau answers phone calls and helps people get rides and riders for trips. It sounded like a good thing. The problem was to get someone to answer the phone...
...Representative James Davis, chairman of the House subcommittee investigating integration in the capital's schools, could well have caused a flurry of embarrassment in Government circles. How many officials, he wanted to know, have been willing to send their children to desegregated schools? Last week Davis got his answer...
...race too tangled for unraveling by words and seek relief in action -no matter how blind or brutal. The voice at the back door sounds insistently throughout the book; it is the plaintive, smoky voice of the Negro asking his eternal "Why?" and getting, as always, a dusty answer...
Rare is the urban man of the 20th century who has not dreamed of a return to a life more innocent and less complicated. A weekend of fishing will answer for some. Others dream of a chicken farm when the annuity begins to pay off. The lucky ones actually buy an island in the Caribbean or off the coast of Maine. But they seldom stick it out. For the tragedy of the modern Robinson Crusoe is that he cannot seem to shake off the hold of modern life. Was primitive man really happier? Is contemporary civilization really a flop...