Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contemporary political complacency. "I feel along with many people that the current American assumption that there can be 'politics as usual' in the year of the atom bomb does not make too much sense. We are perhaps too sure that 1960 will come along without a contaminated atmosphere or even a worse explosion and that we can play guessing games without serious risk to life on this planet...
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg is one of many relatively obscure German writers who deserve respect in a literary world dominated by English and French authors. The reputation acquired by German writers even of the classic period of German literature has been one of an extreme stuffiness, and this reputation has naturally not aided German popularity. Lichtenberg as he is presented by Professors Mautner and Hatfield may in part dissolve this outdated notion...
...master of the aphorism. Although he produced nothing else in the realm of great literature, his amazing skill at combining a sharp wit with deep insights was enough to endear him to his great contemporaries, Goethe and Kant. Later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Lichtenberg was even more valued by such greats as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard who saw in him evidence of their own existential approach to philosophy. That Lichtenberg was in many ways ahead of his time is true, for in a time of rampant Enlightenment rationalism Lichtenberg retained a wry skepticism quite uncharacteristic...
...University is actively involved in an effort to secure qualified Negro students, he continued, and is "even paying to prepare several to enter the college by sending them to preparatory schools in New England. To my knowledge, the only quota or limit placed upon a Negro's entry into Harvard is found in the low economic status of Negroes generally and in the poor educational facilities available to many Negroes...
...seems as though the B.U. meet each December is Record Smashing Night at Briggs Cage. Last year seven meet marks and numerous other standards fell, and this season's clash was even better. The score for the evening: three Harvard records, four University indoor marks, four Cage standards, four varsity meet records, a freshman Cage standard, and three freshman meet marks...