Word: apts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Punch or Judy. Yet when an ex-priest lands a good job, he is apt to discover that the secular afterlife is no paradise. One former cleric in Los Angeles, now employed as a social worker, finds that his $700-a-month salary, which he at first considered lavish, barely sustains him. About two-thirds get married-taking on the added burdens of providing for a family. And though Catholics no longer automatically conclude that a priest who has left the church did so because of "Punch or Judy" trouble-drink or women-many are still suspicious. Parents are especially...
People in Glass Houses clearly asks if big-time idealism is not apt to be as dehumanizing as large-scale anything. The point is neatly made when the Director General departs from his prepared address on Staff Day to pay his respects to the need" for holding on to "one's secret identity." The half-asleep come awake. Throats are cleared. The interpreters hesitate. Is this organizational heresy at the highest level? "I don't quite know," says one of the listeners later. "I think I felt heartened to hear something said merely because it was felt. Still...
...biographer observes, Churchill's bulldozing ascent soon earned him respect and enmity in equal measure: "When he was a backbencher, Churchill had spoken as if he were an Under-Secretary; as Under-Secretary, as if a member of the Cabinet; and when he reached the Cabinet, he was apt to speak as if he were Prime Minister." It is only fair to add that as Prime Minister, he was likely to speak as if he were...
...case of the Harvard protestors of October 25 any punishment which impedes their academic progress would be excessive. We do, however, support their position entirely and call for all universities, including Harvard and Wellesley, to heed the call to conscience which has generated these protests. Sigmund Abeles, Art Leon Apt, History Duncan Aswell, Eng. Grazia Avitabile, Ital. Mariam Berlin, His. Sharon Cadman, Eng. Elizabeth Conant, Bio. Ann Congleton, Phil. Helen Corsa, Eng. John Crawford, Music Ward Cromer, Psych. Fred Denbeaux, Bib. His. Jacqueline Evans, Math. David Ferry, Eng. John Graham, Math Laurel Furumoto, Psy. Rene Galand, French Edward Gulick...
...Durants are sometimes superficial: they are bound to be, considering the scope of their enterprise. But they have also achieved depths and insights lacking in many academic works. The charge that they are popularizers is meaningless. Of course they are popularizers-and great ones. It is apt that in this last volume they write of an age when to be a popularizer was still considered something brave and even glorious. As Will Durant once said: "History is baroque. It smiles at all attempts to force its flow into theoretical patterns or logical grooves; it plays havoc with our generalizations, breaks...