Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STUDENT: Sorry. Day by day I will grow more obscure, until my patients and I completely fail to communicate...
DEAN: Exactly. (Moist of eye, he pats the new graduate on the head.) You can now take your pick of careers in medicine, religion, business and geopolitics-as well as wine-tasting and art criticism. And if you fail at everything, there's a job for you at Instant College. (Calling after him as the student exits.) And remember, it is better to curse one candle than to light the darkness...
...coming from a Catholic bishop" [Dec. 9], but they are not startling to the great majority of Protestant pastors. I feel sure I am only one among many religious leaders who have for years believed and taught the things that the good bishop now "startles" us with. And I fail to see how his conclusion that "love is the fulfillment of the law" differs in any way from situation ethics-as propounded, for example, by Dr. Joseph Fletcher in his book Situation Ethics: the New Morality, except that the word "consensus" is used...
...police its own trade with Rhodesia. Shortly after last week's vote, South Africa, which supplies most of Rhodesia's oil and is its principal trading partner, announced that it had no intention of obeying the resolution. Without South African cooperation, the sanctions seemed doomed to fail...
Only Harvard and other universities, acting together, can apply the pressure on the agencies and in Congress that will get effort reporting rolled back. They are, from all indications, about to try. If they fail this time, or accept another weak compromise, effort reporting is probably here to stay...