Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There should be no question of control in a club which has one set of common interests, according to Gail Warshofsky '59, president of the Radcliffe group. If the merger is approved, she feels that the club will work as a unit, with no power struggles...
...Common opinion stipulates three major functions of criminal punishment: deterrence, retribution, and reformation. Those who favor retention of the death penalty rely most heavily on the first of these, and it is primarily on this ground that they must be refuted...
...Fear of the external danger of Soviet Russia is all that supports Gomulka's government," Zbigniew Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government, charged last night in an informal discussion in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...sometimes be justified by the "principle of double effect" (both good and evil resulting from the same act, with the good more weighty). Scientists, he notes, have given preponderant evidence that excessive cigarette smoking greatly increases the probability of lung cancer, while moderate smoking increases the likelihood only slightly. Common sense shows that a slight danger may be risked, even if the only good that results is pleasure or relaxation (e.g., horseback riding is permissible, although there is a remote possibility that the rider may be thrown and killed). Therefore, moderate cigarette smoking is not sinful, unless for special reasons...
Though the millions of squalling young Americans whose lives would be most affected knew nothing about it, there was Dig news for babies this week. Clattering off the presses was a revised version of the gospel by which half a U.S. generation has been raised: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, by Pediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $5; Pocket Books, 50?). To the original edition, which has sold more than 9,000,000 copies since 1946, Author Spock has added some 100 pages. The gist of his revisions and additions reflects the changing climate...