Word: commit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard is to commit herself to an "Honors for all" program, in all fairness to the undergraduates she has the obligation to accept only those most likely to benefit from Honors work. It is a hard choice to make between the athlete and the grind, but this choice is the test of the University's seriousness of intent relative to upgrading Harvard education...
Kenneth Barlow, a male nurse who often gave injections (including insulin) to patients in north of England hospitals, thought he had it figured out. Colleagues quoted him as saying: ''You could commit a. perfect murder with insulin. It cannot be traced." Last year Barlow, 38. had his chance. His second wife. Elizabeth, was pregnant, and neither wanted the baby. He started to give her injections of ergometrine to induce an abortion. On a May night. Elizabeth Barlow, 30, was found drowned in the bathtub...
...general himself-proud, dedicated, remote, positive, full of paternal silences and prestigious mysteries. This week he is off on a 14,000-mile jet tour of Madagascar, Equatorial and West Africa, to sell a simple yes response to his package that with one word will commit all Frenchmen, whatever their questions and reservations, to the course he has set for them...
...widened approach to man's problems, including new emphasis on the importance of childhood experiences in molding the adult (an area that Jungians formerly had largely ignored because they felt it was a field in which the Freudians had gone too far). Though Archiater Jung refused to commit himself publicly, best evidence was that he favored the more progressive wing, feared that his movement would die if it became too introverted and parochial. Quipped one delegate: "We made real progress-we didn't stick to Jungian terms and talk only about archetypes. I believe someone even mentioned...
Review's nonfiction manages to convey the flavor of the Left Bank's fermenting geniuses and flamboyant phonies, e.g., Editor Plimpton's relaxed biography of an expressionistic dancer named Vali, who invited her friends in to watch her commit suicide, thought better of it, instead turned out some haunting macabre drawings reproduced in the current issue...