Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what he expects his children to get from college, he will very likely evade the question. Most college graduates seem to feel about college the way Louis Armstrong feels about rhythm: "Why man, if you gotta ask what it is, then you ain't got it." This kind of answer makes most people drop the topic, and classifies the persistent investigator as an ignorant boor. But for those who insist on some more telling argument for higher learning than mere manners, several kinds of answers are available...
Part of the answer to our question is historical. The first women's colleges were founded to challenge the assumption that men had a monopoly on careers, and they therefore imitated the men's curriculum. But these colleges have done their work, and any woman who wants a career now has little difficulty in finding appropriate training. Yet for her purposes the coeducational institution is ultimately preferable, both because it is usually cheaper, and because it offers more of the necessary facilities...
...response to a question put by Derek T. Winans '60, President Emeritus of the HYDC, Freidel claimed that "institutional" reform" is the answer. Citing California as an example, Freidel said that the enthusiasts, organized into local Democratic Clubs, had "worked to capture existing party machinery...
Indeed, it is very disturbing that neither exiled President Mirza and Revolutionary President Ayub nor your two worthy readers from Pakistan had anything to say in favor of democracy and civil rights. This is in great contrast to the statement of Prime Minister Nehru that the answer to the stupendous development of Communist China is a "challenge to democracy to achieve equal progress without coercion," not a Mirzaesque approach that democracy is unfit for this challenge...
...count indictment was based on Goldfine's refusal to answer 22 questions put to him last July in a House investigation...