Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impact. But it is not yet trite to point out that planning such a course of study does not mean choosing only courses in math and physics, with perhaps a little military Japanese thrown in. Liberal education has the special virtue of flexibility and breadth sufficient to cope with abnormal situations. It changes gradually, as the main lines of thought shift from age to age, but it is adaptable as its stands, to cope with emergencies. War is an unending succession of emergencies, and a mechanical mind cannot hope to deal with them successfully...
...violent noncooperation which he urges for India's defense reached such furnace temperature that he wrote in the journal Harijan: "The presence of the British in India is an invitation to Japan to invade India. Their withdrawal would remove the bait. . . . Free India would be better able to cope with the invasion. Unadulterated noncooperation would then have full sway...
Whether it is due to the war, or just a plain, old-fashioned "everything I am I owe to my mother" feeling among Cambridge undergraduates, the purveyors of flowers, sweetmeats, and telegrams in the Square are finding themselves pressed, with Mother's Day in sight, to cope with a rush of undergraduate gift and greetings buyers...
...sympathy which is lacking when the author turns to broader themes. Though pleasant in its occasional lyrics, too much of this book is composed of brief epigrammatic lessons for the young. From a poet of greater intellectual stature such preachments might be of interest, but agricultural intuition alone cannot cope with the psychological problems of a mechanized society...
...decrepit beadsmen came a long array of Canterbury canons, chaplains and dignitaries in all their robes, followed by pages carrying the maces of Canterbury and York and the cross of Canterbury. Last of all came Dr. William Temple himself, wearing a miter with his gold-embroidered cream brocade cope...