Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choose one who has no claims to scholarship along any line, one who knows nothing of ancient or modern languages and cultures, nothing about the vast realms of modern science, nothing about the intricacies of research, or even about the qualifications making for success in teaching. If Columbia can commit this absurdity, why not every other university in the land? No longer are educators to strive to grow in breadth and wisdom in order that they may be called to fill the seats of the mighty in education. Theirs is to labor in obscurity at salaries appropriate to obscurity...
...chosen 1,400 now average about 35 years old. They proved to be healthier than the average U.S. citizen, less apt to be insane or to commit suicide. Three have become alcoholics; four have been in jail. Today, the group includes 69 lawyers, 44 doctors, 85 college professors, 25 authors or journalists, seven artists or composers, seven policemen and one truck driver. They have written more than 100 books and 1,200 magazine articles, taken out 150 patents. Their incomes are above average, but not startlingly so: for men, $4,700; for women...
...combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to [the following] acts: . . . quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; . . . protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants . . .; cutting off our trade with all parts of the world; . . . transporting us . . . to be tried for pretended offenses; . . . abolishing our most valuable laws and altering fundamentally the forms of . . . governments...
...jail, Wright tried to commit suicide, and was sent to a mental hospital. The hospital treated him, decided that he was sane, and sent him back to jail. Thereupon his lawyer called in a top-ranking Pittsburgh psychiatrist. Dr. Yale David Koskoff, senior neurosurgeon at Montefiore Hospital, suggested a prefrontal lobotomy (brain nerve-cutting) to revamp Wright's "psychopathic personality." That was all right with the prisoner-and with the court...
...outstanding fact about viruses, says he, is that their well-being depends on the health of their host. Unlike bacteria and insects, which are often out-&-out rivals of man, viruses can live only as long as the human being they infect. Unfortunately for the host, viruses often commit suicide by killing the patient. But in the long run, says Burnet, the virus varieties with the best chance of survival are those that "live & let live." Many of the viruses that infect man have evolved into forms that produce low-grade infections, often so harmless that the host...