Word: damn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with strong financial help, one fallback possibility. He badgers professors, who at a big campus may not even know his name, to write letters of reference. Some schools require essays on a senior's scholastic plans, or on himself. Says a Harvard senior about his autobiography: "The damn thing almost gave me an identity crisis. I sweated a week over those three paragraphs-and finally had my roommate write...
Finding pertinent answers to these questions means piercing beneath the Department stereotypes and routine data to seek out articulate informants. In this first issue, we have been more descriptive than critical, for the guide's primary function is not to praise or damn the departments, but to help freshmen reach a decision. But this beginning investigation should lead to further in-depth studies of the departments. And future guides, hopefully, can report not only what the departments are, but also what they ought...
...Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the Collège de France. "I find it's perfectly possible to spend my life knowing that we will never explain the universe." Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray points to another variety of unbelief: the atheism of distraction, people who are just "too damn busy" to worry about...
...massive diminishing influence. "Reaction from the world's great and from the man in the street was uniformly incredulous . . . From Independence, Mo., former President Harry S. Truman, who received the news in his Kansas City barbershop, said 'I'm always sorry to hear somebody is dead. It's a damn shame." *Almost impossible to translate, the name Yahweh means roughly "I am who I am" or "He causes to be." *Probably the most famous proofs for God's existence are the five ways of St. Thomas Aquinas, all drawn from the nature of the universe, that he sets...
...became a noted Alpinist and the first American to conquer two of the most dreaded Alps, the Matterhorn and the Eiger, via their treacherous north faces, opened a school in Switzerland specializing in direttissima, an innovation that ignores the traditional zigging and zagging around danger spots for a damn-the-obstacles, straight-up climb to the top; as a result of a 3,000-ft. fall during the first direttissima attempt on the Eiger, successfully completed by the rest of the team three days after he became the mountain's 29th victim; in Kleine Scheidegg, Switzerland...