Word: careful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came to Harvard because I didn't particularly care for that idea. This school, more than any other, wraps itself inside a vision of immortality, of the glory of knowledge eternal, rising with calm through the ages. There is a permanence to the walls, to the libraries, to the classic beauty of the Yard on a spring day, that mocks the passage of time. To descend into Widener in search of history is to forget that we will all be history soon enough, and be judged. This institution swallows up little men and women and tells them they will live...
...understands the situation and does not want a great war. It wants political and internal results without war and with the help of Vietnam forces and Cuban forces. The SALT talks are essential. The talks are better than war. They deal with very essential things, but we must take care of arms control problems and other questions in these talks. I think the U.S. wants effective results in a short time and that is dangerous in some ways. The U.S. and the USSR must also discuss Chinese-American relations...
...small, special and interminable programs that add up to much spending, this one makes payments to beekeepers who suffer losses because of insecticides approved by the U.S. Government. In recent years farmers have become much more judicious in using poisons, spraying has been reduced, and beekeepers are taking better care of their colonies. OMB argues that there is no longer a need for the $3 million-a-year program...
Public universities, which must take care not to turn away the children of taxpayers, emphasize that they do not hand out free educations to foreigners. Says Joe West Neal, director of the International Office at the University of Texas at Austin, which has students from some 90 countries: "A government will come to us and say, 'Here is a check for $400,000. This is for our children. They are our future.' " Private institutions have no curbs on the number of foreigners they can take. At Stanford's business school, which accepts only one in twelve applicants...
...generalize like this-- particularly since there are many talented directors, writers, and actors, some of whom have the energy and intelligence to motivate themselves even amid the general torpor--but one's general impressions are sometimes important. Harvard theater is comfortable; many of those involved don't really care about anything as grandiose as Drama or Theater--they care about having an outlet for their extracurricular energy, about making friends and having a good time. Nothing wrong there...