Word: fails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the difficulties of the transfer's life, he seems to benefit from his life at Harvard. Very few transfers fail to do academically well. Overcoming the difficulties involved in transfering requires an exceptional desire to come to Harvard. Once he is here, the transfer is less likely to criticize Harvard than his classmate, who has never attended another university. The transfer has enough perspective to realize the faults inherent in a university life...
...business leaders. Said Nixon: "The major threat from Russia does not lie in overt aggression, but from aggression in the economic, political and psychological fields . . . The concern I have tonight is that while we are, as we should be, putting emphasis on military strength, we might fail to develop what we need to do to avoid losses in other fields . . . There are many differences among the uncommitted countries of the world, but they all want economic progress, and they want it quickly...
Instead, the solution lay in making "some tough choices" in nonessential, nonmilitary federal programs. "Now, by whatever amount savings fail to equal the additional costs of security, our total expenditures will go up. Our people will rightly demand it. They will not sacrifice security to worship a balanced budget. . . Some savings may still be squeezed out through the wringer method. But the savings of the kind we need can come about only through cutting out or deferring entire categories of activities. This will be one of the hardest and most distasteful tasks that the coming session of Congress must face...
...Astrophysicist J. Allen Hynek, director of the nation's satellite-optical-tracking program, "this country must change its way of thinking about education-clear back to the kindergarten." The big change would probably have to begin in the home. "Parents," said a group of Albuquerque science teachers, "generally fail to counsel their children on school courses, and they have a get-by philosophy of their own. The elder generation wants to work short hours, get high pay, ride in big cars and watch television." The effect on the schools, said Grayson Kirk, has been devastating. "Many a bright student...
...perception or desire to determine the sources of Freud's ideas and actions. His worshipful attitude towards Freud--"And so we take leave of a man whose like we shall not know again. He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead."--is quite often annoyning. But Jones does not fail to defend himself at great length about the instances when Freud criticized...