Word: desideratum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most University officials, as well as the Masters, concede that the Houses are crowded beyond the desirable point, several officials said. But the problem arises--is total deconversion to the "normal" capacity of each suite a desideratum? John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, contended yesterday that it is. "It may be assumed as a simple rule," he said, "that everyone needs a room by himself...
...second from hot to cool, which is partly seasonal; in summer fiction they tend to be cool. There are also body-geography and sexual-topology students-erotic spelunkers of a sort. Since the modified screenplay distantly related to From Here to Eternity, fornication in the surf has become the desideratum, so that the brief tussle in the sea foam has now become a standard image of suggestion, and when the waves keep on breaking in, all by themselves, you know what's happening. Among the orgasm symbols are the high-wind group, the fire group, and the rocket...
...Levin's "sin?" It is living in a world of words which is "neither dangerous nor implacable;" living in a world in which "nobody suffers more than the loss of a promotion;" living in a world in which "only truth is moral." So, it would seem, Mr. Jenck's desideratum is a dangerous world, a world of considerable suffering, a world in which, apparently, falsehood is moral--in short, the "workaday world...
...rough," even if they try to carry them out, the program will never work. It requires a will to comply, in the Ivy League and in the nation as a whole. If Penn or Cornell, just for the sake of argument, decided that a winning football team was a desideratum, it could arrange to procure one while piously and truthfully proclaiming its adherence to League rules. And if the president of Oklahoma accepts the A.C.E. draft and wants to find loopholes, he will surely be able to do so. But the two proclamations of last weekend are most encouraging, even...