Word: cores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge politics. Being out-of-towners, they are usually groping after one or two years just for a niche at Harvard. "It's not easy to ring doorbells for someone nobody has ever heard of before," Schumer admitted. "But you know how SDS keeps going? They get a core of 25 people to work full time on some project. I've never seen a group with so much Protestant ethic." Club officers hope, perhaps mistakenly, that McCarthyism without McCarthy can whip up campus enthusiasm for Council elections and busy-work democracy...
Regardless of their genesis, Milner argues, the best proverbs easily transcend ethnic and geographical barriers. They deal in the fundamental stuff of life: love and war, birth and death, sickness and health, work and play. Like the human mind itself, they seek the core meaning of things and the satisfying symmetry of antithesis. They touch the taproots of the mind without requiring the service of the intellect...
...group got off to a good start: Lockheed Aircraft Corp. agreed to lease 6.5 acres and build an aircraft-parts manufacturing plant that will employ 300 persons, including as many hard-core unemployed as possible. Allen promised that the park will also be open to local small businessmen. "What we are doing in Watts," he said, "is what should be done in every ghetto in America...
Skillfully, the author does show how the humble Drosophila led Haldane to what may be considered the central drama of his life. He was one of the last of the hard-core Stalinists in the Western intellectual community-a genuine holdover from the liberal-Communist marriage of the '30s. During the Civil War, he went to Spain as to a shrine. He closed his eyes to the horrors of Stalin's purges, shrugged off the Hitler-Stalin pact. Unused to the logic of the world, he failed to draw the conclusions that occurred to less talented...
Indeed, the Loeb, at present, seems to bear the stigma of ingrowth--scaring people off, alienating them from other Harvard theatre--without the advantages of a core of people to depend on for solid team work...