Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Felt admitted that "pirating" is "not too apt to happen in the Ivy League," and that "there are very few transfers within the Ivy League." Conceding that "the transfer rule is occasionally hard," Felt noted that exceptions may be made by the Ivy Committee on Eligibility to boys with "a straightforward approach" to the problem...
...insists that it has happened historically "with the Hebrew prophets, with the Greek poets and philosophers, with the Hellenistic and Christian regenerations of the first centuries A.D., with the biblically grounded ethics of the Protestant world." Jaspers prefers reason above all other contemporary regenerative forces because it is "not apt to become a church, a doctrine, a system; it is the ever-moving freedom of man himself...
...desirable, since nature did not design it for intelligence. "The brain of man, like that of other vertebrates, is an item of random design to meet one basic purpose: survival. The fact that it has outthought things like saber-toothed tigers is no evidence that it is particularly apt for abstract thinking...
...RIGHT TO AN ANSWER, by Anthony Burgess (255 pp.; Norton: $3.95), is a fictional sermon written in the form of a comic novel. It reveals that at 20, the question is apt to be: "What does it all mean?" At 30, it is more likely: "Is this all there is?" If at 40 or so, the questioner still has received no reply, he usually provides his own answers-to the first question a smile, to the second a nod. But British Author Burgess is neither a smiler nor a nodder. At 43 he is still banging noisily...
...fault as much as Russia, she claimed. "Our own stupidity, and not just Soviet propaganda, makes the rest of the world think America is more apt to go to war than the Communists...