Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adaptation, you understand, is a natural process, or so said Darwin. It simply happens. Awareness of adjustment facilitates comfort, but introspection can destroy. So be careful. It all boils down to Survival of the Fittest. And fitness at Harvard necessitates pain--lots...
...will find that you cannot, and should not, take comfort in the possibility that because of the unequal male-female ration here, you may in fact be 2.5 times smarter than your Harvard classmate. The people who actually believe things like that are aggravated Harvard undergraduates who will dismiss you as a snotty-Ali McGraw-bitch. Worse, though, are the professors who would never even entertain thoughts about your intelligence. With the same lack of awareness that leads them to believe that Radcliffe students pay a different tuition than Harvard students, they have never fully absorbed the fact that Harvard...
...Nixon consistently failed to appeal to the better natures of American citizens; he gave undue aid and comfort to the narrow and meanspirited. Acutely conscious that middle-and low-income whites alike were resentful of the special efforts that were being made to ease the plight of America's 20 million blacks, Nixon adopted a hands-off approach. His textual justification, wrenched out of its context, was Moynihan's statement that "the time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect." Moynihan was saying not only that the issue...
...capable of doing so-of all that happened, I would be willing to say he has been sufficiently punished by losing his post." Adds Mrs. Julie Martin of Lexington, Va., "No one wants to see a former President in jail. But it's hard to reach the comfort of that decision when you consider the reality and balance it against your belief in equal justice...
...watched the resignation speech, Eugene Jannuzi, 58, head of the Moltrup Steel Products Co., took some comfort in the fact that Nixon's hands were steady, his eyes clear and his voice strong. "As he spoke," said Jannuzi, "I felt that I could forgive him much." Edward Sahli, 70, a General Motors dealer, also felt that Nixon "did the right thing" by resigning, but only because "the man could not have had a fair trial in the Senate." Jannuzi still believes, as he has from the beginning, that Nixon was destroyed by his enemies. "What I would like...