Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost any week in the New Yorker, and Bradley Phillips' "The Glass Wall" can hardly claim to be more than a somewhat symbolic atmosphere piece. Sensitivity and good writing do not save these stories from a slightness in which the Advocate makes a mistake to indulge to such an extent...
...unquestionably the product of a Communist putsch of the most brazen sort, is not yet fully enough evolved to warrant throwing one hand up in despair and reaching for a rifle with the other, as many are already doing. It is true that President Benes has capitulated to the extent that he has accepted the resignation of twelve of his non-Communist ministers; and it is true that reports coming out of Czechoslovakia announce the existence of many police state features within the country. But it is equally true that Jan Masaryk, an outspoken believer in East-West cooperation...
...House system was supposed to fill this gap and in prewar days it did so to some extent. President Lowell's idea of the intellectual exchange over the dinner table was an admirable ideal but has not worked in practice. I have known students in the Houses who eat together religiously, not because they had the slightest thing in common (which was evidenced by their conversation) but because they happened by mere chance to be thrown together as roommates and, knowing no one else, formed themselves into a little group of fellow sufferers. On rare occasion I have seen these...
...rightly, that getting an education is not the same thing as playing a football game--the purpose is not primarily competitive and therefore "rules of the game" are slightly ridiculous. Education is supposed to be an instrument of success living, economically and socially, and to a certain extent an end in itself...
...recommended a reversal of policy, even to the extent of repudiating partition, had persuasive arguments on their side...