Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less likely to be the result of experience or disillusionment than it is the position taken by one who wants to give the the impression that he has been around. It is ideal for the student who is less anxious to be right than he is to avoid being wrong, whose desire for truth subserves his dread of being thought foolish. In his efforts to elude being caught in a ridiculous posture, he avoids positive commitment if possible. Religous zeal and patriotism are examples of attitudes missing or rare at Harvard, the epithet "pious" provokes dension, and the term...
...beach methodically, studying the terrain. Then, in coveralls, armed with an enormous shovel, he started to dig. Hour after hour, day after day, he labored, heaping up the sand in a big, flat-topped pyramid some twelve feet square, the sides banked at just the right angle to avoid cave-ins, the corners smoothed to knife-edge symmetry, a system of ditches carefully plotted to drain off the ground water, a ramp from the beach to his plateau of sand. When the pyramid was about seven feet high it was finished, and the sweating professor toted...
...They saw the uncertainty and ferment around them as a time of kairos-a Greek word for the Scriptural "fullness of time" in which the eternal could penetrate the temporal order. Their prescription for the world was "Religious Socialism." Without a religious foundation, they insisted, "no planned society could avoid its eventual destruction." Not surprisingly, such highflown talk had little appeal either for practical politicians or practical church men. "If the Social Democrats had accepted us," muses Tillich wistfully today, "or if the churches had put their influence behind our movement rather than at tempting to retrieve the old traditional...
Therefore Tillich, like Kierkegaard, sees man's existence a state of anxiety. This "existential" anxiety is not to be confused with fear, for it has no object, and fear must have an object. Nor is it to be confused with neurotic anxiety; the neurotic attempts to "avoid non-being by avoiding being...
...college courses they had in effect already taken. Of course, men with full Sophomore Standing can not do this: their promotion is contingent upon credits received for their advanced work in high school. A student with A.P. in one or two courses, however, is under no compulsion to avoid repetition. So far, though, virtually no one has used his accelerated training for mere grade advantage: this academic honesty is essential to the program's continued success...