Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party strength in the Senate kept fairly well balanced. Today, however, after 19 years of uninterrupted Liberal control, the Tories' Senate strength has dwindled to seven seats; the Liberals hold 75. Liberal St. Laurent would scarcely appoint Tory politicians. But he hoped that his non-political appointments would correct some of the Senate's imbalance. Intimates reported that he was deeply disappointed at the church's veto...
...think the central difficulty of [humanist] moral teaching is its danger of self-righteousness. You know the story of the man who set out to correct his moral slackness. He watched himself for a month, and honestly tried to be more thoughtful, more helpful, more honest and all the rest. And then he found he was jolly well pleased with his progress. And he thought: 'Good heavens, I am becoming a prig! I must learn humility.' So he concentrated on humility for a week, and at the end of it he gave himself...
...said another. "A realist," "a rationalist," said still others. The students quickly got the professor's point-that there was an element of truth in each of their answers. "The next time anyone asks you, 'What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?' " Professor Hook said, "the correct answer is 'What year, please?' " In his 83rd year, Bertrand Arthur William, Earl Russell is busier taking up old stances than throwing fresh philosophical punches. For one brief moment in the preface of his latest book Human Society in Ethics and Politics, the old philosopher gets...
This would be a natural for Harvard, and it is surprising that the usually astute and forward-looking Corporation has overlooked such an opportunity. Not only would it correct the unfair discrimination against the law students and exempt them also from an athletic fee, but there would be ample revenue left over to endow a couple of more scholarships or even a now theatre...
Your excellent article on the continental Air Defense Command [Dec. 20] served to highlight many of the problems we have to wrestle with in this air defense business . . . I would, however, like to correct an impression that may possibly have been created by one paragraph wherein you describe the parachute jump from a burning plane, piloted by me, which caught fire while returning from a gunnery mission. This might be construed to imply that panic or extreme slowness of action on the part of the sergeant observer in clearing the plane was the primary cause of my injury; such...