Word: commit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McGeorge Bundy once said that an ideal Freshman would be ready to join the Faculty. He did not pose a somewhat more significant quotion: whether a Freshman would want to join the Faculty. Many students are reluctant to commit themselves to science, at least, and Harvard's atmosphere militates against any final commitment...
...teams at Harvard are not recruited. They are legitimate members of the student body. Sometimes they commit the awful crime of playing below the level of Australian tennis and Pakistanian squash--but we still consider our activities moderately worthwhile. Some people even like to watch. Looking objectively at football, I personally submit the suggestion that captain Pete Hart, who I am told began at 165 pounds and worked like a dog to build himself up to become a regular, then captain--this boy got as much or more out of football at Harvard than any paid athlete anywhere anytime...
...never have to go that far if he can exert enough pressure on the English dailies-and the business interests that own most of them-to make a chauvinistic moratorium on criticism stick. "Naturally," says Johannesburg Star Editor Horace Flather, "it's preferable for the enemy to commit suicide. Then you don't have to murder...
Phillip Altbach, national chairman of the Student Peace Union continues the symposium on the student movement with a piece that says nothing at all. Well, perhaps that is unfair to Mr. Altbach, who manages to use the word commit(ment) five times in three paragraphs, and urges student leaders to be sly because they are ultimately dependent on adults for respectability, money, co-operation and support...
Write Me a Murder, by Frederick Knott, marks the Broadway spot where a superior mystery thriller may be found. In the course of a suspenseful evening, Playwright Knott (Dial "M" for Murder) shows that it takes almost as much skill to write the perfect crime as to commit...