Word: endless
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...preference system requires immeasurably more work, and an immeasurably greater expenditure of energy, than the relatively simple process of making sure that no single House gets too many of any one kind of person. The shuffling of application forms which goes on under the present Harvard system seems endless. After each House has filled a certain percentage of its vacancies from its first choice applications, some of the applications from the overapplied Houses are transferred to the offices of the underapplied. When the underapplied Houses have filled...
...preference system requires immeasurably more work, and an immeasurably greater expenditure of energy, than the relatively simple process of making sure that no single House gets too many of any one kind of person. The shuffling of application forms which goes on under the present Harvard system seems endless. After each House has filled a certain percentage of its vacancies from its first choice applications, some of the applications from the overapplied Houses are transferred to the offices of the underapplied. When the underapplied Houses have filled...
...ENVY, writes Novelist Angus (Anglo-Saxon Attitudes) Wilson, is perhaps the dourest of sins, since "it knows no gratification save endless self-torment." Wilson finds the Green Evil everywhere, and suggests it is becoming more prevalent as examinations, from college boards to corporate psychological tests, determine who is up and who is down in life. Writers and actors are notoriously liable to envy and "ambitious clergymen, service officers and shop stewards appear to suffer most." But perhaps the most obnoxious form of the sin today is Western Europe's pervasive anti-Americanism. "There are grievances against America which deserve...
More pressing to President Sterling, who stays close to the 9,827 students despite endless road trips for money, is the inadequacy of physical facilities. The library, says Dornbusch, "is the worst I have ever seen in a major university." Such needs are the point of PACE, and Sterling will not rest until they are met. Even in public-educating California, he tells PACE dinners across the country, "There is still room for a demonstration of what can be done by private aspiration, initiative and enterprise...
...ducked a commitment. Lingering prejudice against Yankee intervention and the fear of left-led masses back home turned last January's Punta del Este conference into a weary marathon. Patiently, Rusk had listened to the arguments from Mexico, Brazil and the others. Doggedly, he wheedled and compromised for endless days to win the necessary two-thirds majority (14 votes) for the blandest sort of condemnation of Castro's dictatorship. But this time, faced by the tangible menace of Russian missiles, the U.S. decided to act in its own self-defense, and then to ask for hemispheric approval. Latin...