Word: desideratum
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...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...
...Chief desideratum for the pages of a College literary publication should be critical columns on drama and music subjects, according to the results of the poll taken at registration by Signature, the newly-organized Harvard-Radcliffe successor to Radditudes...
Grades No Desideratum...
...gamble with her democracy, a gamble in which the cards are inevitably stacked against her if she intervenes in Europe, and in which she has some chance of winning if she turns her energy to the betterment of her own part of the world. The latter is the real desideratum. That--and that alone--is worth fighting...