Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...require its committees to cover house operating expense, i.e., make up for cut back funds. This proposed financial solution places an intolerable burden on the individual committees which are already on the verge of financial collapse. Without the full faculty subsidy those allegedly professional committees within PBH which do enjoy a modicum of success will cease to function. Next June when the members of the Class of 1946 saunter towards the Union in their tuxedos on their way to the Reunion Concert at Symphony Hall and confront Riverside residents and their children protesting in the Yard, they will ask 'what...
...human suffering. But the New Testament, at least for believing Christians, is not a "tragedy." Behind the crucifixion stands the resurrection. It is instead the revelation of the God of all creation, and I suspect that He is secure enough in His position to tolerate-even o enjoy-a good laugh...
...hand at the railroad station or bus depot to point the way to a job, to housing or to party-run community centers with cut-rate bars and restaurants. Many of Italy's beaches are open sewers, but in Rimini, on Emilia-Romagna's Adriatic coast, swimmers enjoy waters kept clean by modern antipollution equipment...
What is the purpose of poetry? One well-qualified practitioner of the art supplied an answer at a doctors' meeting in Manhattan. Said Poet Wystan H. Auden, 63: "To enable people a little better to enjoy life, or a little better to endure it." What is a minor poet? The furrowed face broke into a smile: "If you take two poems by one man and read them, and you can't tell which was written first, that is a minor poet." The subject of education evoked another satisfyingly sweeping statement: "Political history is far too criminal a subject...
...morals that undermines the family in some ways; but these developments, too, can have their positive effects by reducing the number of pregnancies that lead to hasty and ill-considered marriages, and by allowing couples to put off having children until they are older and have had time to enjoy themselves, to travel and to grow up themselves. The reduction in unwanted pregnancies will also lessen the number of children who are rejected even before they are born and the financial hardship brought on by unplanned large families...