Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Green is backed by a fine company, Robert Eccles plays the proud Pooh-Bah with corpulent pomposity, elegantly waving a fan the size of a Venetian blind. A suitably menacing Mikado, Joseph Macaulay, handles Gilbert's lyrics deftly as he gloats of his plan "to make the punishment fit the crime...
...should not, however, try to extend its services through the whole year, is it has done by proposing a full freshman social calendar along with the Smoker recommendation. Beyond the introductory weeks, the freshmen should be free to map out their own social schedule as their elected committees see fit...
...defined a university as "a place where nothing is static, where that noblest of all intoxicating processes, intellectual ferment, takes place constantly. It is a place where men are taught how to think, to judge, and to be free--to be free to judge and think as they see fit...
...that whether Nixon was right or wrong he had become a liability to the ticket, and should be dumped. Had Ike listened to this view and put seeming expediency above justice to Nixon he would have belied what his friends have said of him: that his character and experience fit him for the decision-making job at a time of moral crisis and leadership crisis in the history of his country...
Actually, the speech was cut to fit the charge it answered. The attack on Nixon's fund as picked up by the New York Post (see PRESS) derived most of its power from the assumption that some of the mud would stick and thus disqualify Nixon (and, through the doctrine of guilt by association, Eisenhower) from continuing a moral crusade against corruption & Communism. The specific legal and moral case against Nixon was so foggy and so vague that Nixon would have made the mistake of his life if he had tried to answer with specific legal or ethical arguments...