Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certain stereotypes are associated with some of the clubs which, like all stereotypes, fail in many individual instances. They are, however, more reliable, on the whole, than the images connected with the respective Harvard houses. Thus, the campus "doers" or activity men are apt to be found in Cap and Gown or Quadrangle, and athletes tend to turn up, according to their inmost natures, either in Tiger Inn, the lair of "the gentlemen jocks," or in Cannon, home of "the sweaty ones." The captain of this year's football team, however, is in Ivy, which always has its pick...
There are those who like history and those who like novels; both classes of readers are apt to be depressed by historical novels. This form of literature, which requires a strict convention of disbelief, is perfectly exemplified in The Winthrop Woman, a bulging package of period color, religion, sex, sadism and witchcraft. It is written in what can only be called Williamsburg prose-the settings and costumes are as authentic as money and research can buy, and if the hands and heads that stick through the quaint old collars and cuffs are stuffed with straw, there will be no complaints...
...Capitalist Manifesto approaches economics and political science, where expediency is apt to rule, in terms of morality and natural law. It asks not only "Will it work?" but above all "Is it just...
...this is apt to sound like pie-machine-in-the-sky, Kelso-Adler back up their ideas with concrete-and controversial -proposals. Among their suggestions: equity-sharing plans, distribution to stockholders of all corporate profits in the case of "mature" corporations, abolition of corporate income taxes and revision of personal income taxes, abolition of inheritance taxes. (At times, the program has the ring of "Capitalists of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your tax forms.") All capitalists-meaning, eventually, all citizens-would get a just return for their investments, limited only by another requirement of justice: that...
Twenty years ago, after a temporary defeat, Bob Young wrote a verse that now seemed more apt...