Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Falstaff McClosky just didn't fit. All his friends knew he didn't fit and perhaps he had known it first of all. Here he was twenty years old, a Harvard junior, and completely left out. It was irony pure and simple. Everyone else seemed at least partially unfulfilled, partially frustrated, somewhat disturbed. But not Falstaff. His life was a model of emotional serenity. Indeed, it was often doubted that he possessed any emotions in the first place. He had failed completely to achieve frustration...
...votes to have his way, and the power to enforce it, and plainly intended to continue de-stooling chiefs and deporting opponents. Like the soldiers who have lately taken power all over Southeast Asia, Nkrumah, no soldier, argues that the classic restraints of 18th century constitutional liberalism do not fit the situation he confronts. But on him-and on them-rests the burden of proof that backward steps will result in greater steps forward...
...Lick from a Cow. The Genesis version of what happened in the Garden of Eden, says Graves, is the result of a process he calls"iconotropy"-the misreading of pictures and symbols from one culture to fit the religious bias of another. He cites the familiar myth of Europa and the bull as an example of this process: the Greeks developed the patriarchal Zeus cult at the expense of the once sovereign "Moon-goddess" by interpreting a Cretan icon of the "Goddess dominating the Minos Bull by riding on its back, as though Zeus, in bull disguise, were carrying...
...wild woods of the news, everyone would like the world shaped to fit his judgments . . . so I have read about learned Popes, political Popes and diplomatic Popes; but the Pope really is only the Pope-the good shepherd defending truth and goodness...
...activities range from directing advanced work in labs to accumulating and arranging outside reading for a history class. Later, the course may include anything an undergraduate knows about that will fit into the pupil's curriculum--as long as the scheduling is less than ten hours a week, the maximum time an HUT agrees to give the program...