Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aron has no categorical answer to the question that troubles every Frenchman: Can a French minority remain, one million against eight million, in an Algerian Republic? But, he warns, "the longer the pacifying war continues, the more the chances of peaceful cohabitation between the two communities diminish." In the long run the men who govern an Algerian Republic, "unless they are carried away by mad blindness, cannot ignore the need they will have of France." For Aron the crux of the question is the formation of this Algerian state-"a difficult enterprise, and nobody can guarantee its success...
There is a deep concern that the undergraduate years may become a transitory stop-gap, a short breather between secondary school and graduate education. Within such a concept, College education would wither; the contribution would deteriorate, and the meaning of an A.B. degree would diminish...
...qualification for degrees, especially as it affects the exceptional scholar. In our graduate schools, Lowell wrote, "we have developed into a mass production of mediocrity." Elsewhere, arguing more specifically in favor of a Society of Fellows, he said, "I do not want to depreciate the Ph.D., but to diminish it as the sole road to teaching in an institution of higher learning. Nor do I wish to diminish the study for the Ph.D., but to provide an alternative path more suited to the encouragement of the rare and independent genius...
Your Feb. 11 article on Negro crime is a timely one, as have been others within the past year. However, it should be made clear that this is one of the self-sown seeds of American destruction. Negro crime will diminish in proportion to the amount of participation afforded the Negro in American affairs. This Negro crime is the price America pays for her racial doubletalk and social hypocrisy...
...international good will" degenerate into a running international rhubarb. Having stored it up through most of the two weeks of sportsmanlike intimacy, competitors and fans alike began to let loose some of the bad temper induced by the Soviet repression of Hungary. The Russians' popularity seemed to diminish as rapidly as their score rose. They were booed so lustily when they took their turn on the fencing mats that police had to escort them through the threatening crowds...