Word: construct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University nowwhere takes into account the average student who is neither promiscuous nor too immature for sex, and who seeks to construct for himself a healthy and meaningful sexual life. That is very difficult at Harvard. I think there is a great deal of truth in Paul S. Cowan's statement that University regulations tend to "brutalize" sex. But aside from the physical restraints of the rules, the University imposes more subtle, and perhaps more serious limitations on sexual development. In its public stance the University appears to ally itself with, and thus reinforce the hypocritical, out-moded, and anxiety...
Calling President Pusey's ideas "The Higher Conformity," Boorstin maintained that the leading tenets of this construct are "less affirmations than fears. Fear of the Outside World. Fear of Practicality, Utility, and Applied Science. Plus a kind of sentimental refugee-attachment to Pure Ideas...
President Bunting said that the plans for the proposed fourth house are also progressing, but the Council felt it would be advisable to construct the study center first. Thaddeus R. Beal, a Trustee of Radcliffe College, said that "If the Study Center is a success, and it looks like it will be, it will excite interest in the fourth house and then we can go ahead with...
...that a shelter provide radiation protection for at least 50 people (with 10 sq. ft. per person); thus it does not apply to home shelters. It allocates $175 million to aid state and local governments, schools, hospitals and other nonprofit institutions to build shelters, earmarks another $15.6 million to construct shelters in federal buildings. Said Hèbert about his pro-shelter switch: "I do not know whether it will save a single life, but I am not going to play God and make a determination upon the future life or death of any American...
...College has given up all plans to construct the sorely-needed Tenth House on the Bennett St. MTA Yards, President Pusey confirmed yesterday...