Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Professor Lazarsfeld was commissioned to find out whether the hysterical chauvinism of the early fifties created fear, inhibition, or conformity among scholars. The question is certainly legitimate, but the answer is not readily found by taking a poll...
...misses the possibility that you will not ask the big questions, that you will simply pass the issues by. So long as courage and tolerance and knowledge remain national ideals, they will be automatically affirmed. If, for example, you ask a man if he avoids controversial issues, every positive answer is an avowal of cowardice. Alongside these men, however, there will be a larger, undetected group who have simply drifted with the times. No questionnaire is sensitive to such historical changes in the intellectual climate, nor to unconscious modifications in one's self-portrait...
...University must first ask itself: is science worth teaching to the non-scientist? The answer seems definitely yes. On the one hand, Harvard graduates are socially critical people, and trite though it may sound, a rudimentary knowledge of science helps provide insight in dealing with political and social issues which scientific developments continually thrust upon us. Just as important, however, is that Harvard's claim to turn out graduates with a modicum of education seems only justified if students are introduced to the basic approaches of science...
Dean Bundy expressed his approval yesterday of the cooperative effort. "It appears to be an exceedingly promising idea," he noted, "and it may well point to an answer of the still unsolved problems of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduate education...
...makes a point of having a listed telephone number just like the average telephone subscriber-and so do the presidents of his subsidiaries. They also answer their own phones and make their own business calls. Walter Koch, president of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co., sometimes gets up at night to answer his telephone, sometimes finds on the line a drunk who berates him for some imagined wrong. He has heard more than one turn and shout to his fellow tipplers: "Listen to me give hell to the telephone company president!" Says Koch philosophically: "It does them good...