Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directed toward the intellectual sphere. At Harvard, a wrong conclusion is bad indeed, and the wrong outlook is contemptible. The Harvard student will accept a new idea if he agrees with it; but it commands little attention merely because it is new, or different. The intolerance of this aspect of Harvard's provincialism is demonstrated by the refusal to discuss matters on any but one's own terms, on the theory that they are the only possible ones in which the subject in question can be considered. This superiority accounts for the scorn with which the naivete of many...
...required to give reasons for the rejection of any advertising copy. "If we did not have these restrictions," he continued, speaking "in general terms," the Bulletin would "be at the mercy of every crackpot in the world." Mahon added that "the Veritas Foundation seems to thrive on the controversial aspect of things...
...secularization or dilution of supernatural belief, Sociologist Lipset notes that evangelical religions are now stronger (about 10 million members) than at any other time in this century, and are actually responsible for much of the growth in church membership. His conclusion: "By far the most striking aspect of religious life in America is not the changes which have occurred in it-but the basic continuities it retains...
...because the prostitute is his step-daughter. I am not giving anything away in revealing this, because the Stepfather (Mr. Reinhardt) and Stepdaughter (Miss Landey) spend a good deal of time standing around chewing the fat about this scene before they ever get to playing it. Perhaps because every aspect of the plight of the Characters is so elaborately discussed, they seem not so much melodramatic as sordid--in spite of a haunting, Flying Dutchman quality in their eternal fixedness in agony. For good stretches of the long first act, before sordidity passes into ghastliness and thus takes on some...
...third aspect of the project, the PBH Tutoring Committee initiated a program for tutoring juvenile delinquents after receiving three referrals from the Cambridge County Court Clinic. Rubenstein expects that the program will expand in the future...