Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic cause of this position is the characteristic Eastern antipathy toward enthusiasm. The current Ivy ideal is the casual man who pursues a line of conduct corresponding to a preconceived code, directed by an unalterable mental outlook in which spontaneous emotions play a miniscule role. If enthusiasm is allowed to creep in, it is carefully controlled and channelled toward "safe" objects such as Humphrey Bogart or the Kingston Trio; it is never casual to display enthusiasm or emotion toward anything more serious than these...
...visiting British newsmen, who was disconsolately staying at Moscow's Hotel National. Burgess, now stocky, florid, and with greying hair, seemed fidgety but in good health. His mission was to ask Churchill's help in appealing to someone in the Macmillan party for a safe-conduct that would enable Burgess to visit his sick 70-year-old mother in England. Churchill refused (another British correspondent, over a Scotch, promised to make inquiries, but with little likelihood of a favorable answer). Though rebuffed, Burgess chatted for several hours with Churchill...
...previously guided both the Nigerians and Jamaicans on the road to independence) moved swiftly to reduce onerous restrictions, so that Makarios and Turkish Cypriot leaders would find it easier to sell the compromise plan to a doubting populace. Swallowing hard, the British proclaimed an amnesty that assures safe-conduct to Greece for Colonel George Grivas, wispy, 60-year-old leader of the Greek Cypriot terrorist underground organization EOKA, along "with anyone he may wish to take with him." The British also announced plans to cut their garrison from...
...them discussed have not specified at all that executive responsibility for the Charity Drive should be completely separated from the Student Council. The question of who can, or will, or should assume responsibility for initiating and organizing the drive each year is certainly important; but the Council's excellent conduct of this year's successful drive provides a very strong argument for leaving the basic executive responsibility where it now rests, in the Council. John U. Monro '34, Dean of Harvard College...
...essays. At least one of these essays is on reading in addition to the regular assignments and is, in addition, 2000 words long. To top things off, at least one tutor is assigning a student to lead the discussions in each session this semester. Each student will theoretically conduct one two hour session. This entals extra work for the tutee thus assigned, and is, on the part of the tutor buck-passing. The tutor is paid to lead the sessions; therefore, he should lead them...