Word: attemptedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attention focused on wisps of smoke above the Vatican and the elevation of Cardinal Cushing--events which monopolized local front pages as to tempt readers to forget the Reformation had ever taken place. Occasionally politics managed to break into the headlines. Senator Kennedy returned to Cambridge, and, in an attempt to capture the "outer fringe" vote, dined with Councilman Al Vellucci...
...does not necessarily doom the western sector. While the NATO allies must not be deluded by free-city offers, they could deal with East German border guards as agents of the Soviet troops who keep the lid on in the Democratic Republic. If these East German authorities were to attempt to cut off West Berlin then it seems the United States has rightly committed itself to preserve the sector's free status, no matter what the cost. Berlin is no rock off the China coast; it is an actual incubator of liberty. It seems doubtful, however, that the Soviets would...
...unanimity exists concerning the policy we shoud adopt on German reunification as does on the problem of West Berlin. The present divided Germany, though, holds dangers for both sides. East Germany might embarrasingly erupt into rebellion against its masters, and the West might eventually face an independent West German attempt to negotiate with Moscow over East Germany. Thus preserving the status quo offers no ultimate solution...
Harvard can, of course, work to reverse some of this pressure. It could attempt to make greater use of Dean Bender's policy of basing admissions on a broader range of talent than mere academic proficiency. It could try to check the growth in quantity of course work. It could cultivate in its undergraduates the realization that their value to society has little to do with their Group standing. It could affirm the value of organized non-academic activity and encourage participation in extra-curricular work beyond the level of encouragement it has so far maintained...
...Must Die (French). A powerful Jules (Rififi) Dassin version of The Greek Passion, Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis' attempt to show how the life of Christ coincides with the lives of all men in a condition of continuous Calvary...