Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jesus. In their lectures, Jewish professors reciprocate by stressing not only Judaism's contemporary relevance but its common links with Christianity. At Georgetown, Rabbi Kraft likes to surprise his stu dents by pointing out that like many a Jewish immigrant's name, Jesus' was changed to fit more comfortably on alien tongues. His real name was Yehoshuah, which was translated as 'Iησοûs in Greek and lesus in Latin; the latter, in turn, be came Jesus. No one expects the campus trend to dispel the doc trinal differences between Judaism and Christianity...
...with its Negro stars. But then in the finals, as Owens, the Alabama sharecropper's son, won one, two, three and finally four gold medals, the camera caught Hitler's face as he smoldered with rage. He would not shake hands with the winner. Owens, now a fit 54 and in public relations, narrated his own story with commendable understatement. Revisiting the empty old Berlin Olympic Stadium 32 years later, he declared that he had not been embittered by Hitler's snub. "I'm here. He's not," reported Owens. "That is enough answer...
...criticism at large on radio has won Newman a Peabody Award and i television he has unburdened himself on everything from the declining grammar of the New York Times I he English is not always fit to print") to Charles de Gaulle's crude meddling in Canadian politics ("To put it kindly, he may be losing his grip") to the cliches of sportscasters (Roger Mans, according to a Newman parody, "swings a once potent mace but is still patrolling the outer garden with his ancient skill"). His architectural critique of the late New York World's Fair noted...
...falls off a cliff and lands on a tree on the way down-bruised and shaken, but alive and susceptible to recovery. More auspiciously, the bankers' decision gave new urgency to the hitherto torpid efforts to turn the creaking system of international exchange into something better fit for today's world...
Apart from the possible arbitrariness of decisions made on this basis, the present policy clearly contradicts a basic belief of President Pusey: individuals have the right to express themselves as they see fit at Harvard. By this logic, the University certainly has no right to decide which student and faculty ideas are fit for consumption by the outside world. Harvard should not shrink back from allowing individuals to express themselves through media...