Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time the United States and Russia can work together. Because of the momentarily transformed relations between Russia and the United States which this crisis has wrought, things are not as hopeless as they might have been. An excellent opportunity presents itself to remold world alignments, to inject an element of mutual confidence into world diplomacy, and to strengthen the United Nations. Poland and Hungary have shown that bipolar conception of contemporary world history no longer fits the facts. Russian support of the United States in the United Nations has buoyed this hope. While the metal is hot, President Eisenhower...
...must be careful always to criticize his own speculations. That is why the Speculative Society spends as much time criticizing its fanciful ideas as it does creating them. There must be "signals," the speculator's term for actual scientific fact, as well as "noise," the vague and indefinite element of speculation, in order for an idea to have any validity. Ordinary science has a high signal-to-noise ratio; speculation is mostly noise, Batteau admits, but not entirely...
Seems that Council President Edward M. Abramson '57 traded words on the parking problem with John W. Teele '27, Planning Coordinator, to the result that the Council may be represented at future negotiations between the City of Cambridge and the University. Teele reportedly recognizes the Council as an important element in the problem...
...element of imprecision, and not necessarily an undesirable one, is that the psychiatric service is but one of several places of resort of for the student in search of counsel. The skeptics say that the existence of the Bureau of Study Counsel, The Office of Student Placement, the Board of Freshman advisers, plus assorted Deans, ministers, departmental tutors, and so forth provides the possibility (which has become a reality in a few instances) that a student may see them...
...group of people suffering in a situation which seems intent on squashing them, I can not consider it as tragic. It seems to me that a tragic hero achieves nobility precisely from the fact that he is in part responsible for his actions, no matter how small the element of responsibility...