Word: freer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kantian sense an end rather than a means. In this century the ideal of unity, of ecumenicity, has strongly reappeared. There is no denying that this diminishes the individual's feeling of freedom, his sense of controlling his own destiny. Much has been lost since a simpler, freer day. But no one can turn back. The U.S. cannot break up the organization any more than the 19th century could break the machines, even though the Luddites tried it. Nor is a return possible from much-denounced "mass culture" to the "folk art" of old (which, as it happens, is largely...
...rules and brightening the students, Notre Dame's President Theodore M. Hesburgh has been trying to create the liveliest Roman Catholic university in the U.S. But in the past "winter of discontent," as he and Jack Kennedy put it, Hesburgh has been repaid with student editorials crying for freer rules and for his removal in favor of "a renowned lay educator." Result: faculty censorship of three articles in the magazine Scholastic, the resignation of three student editors; and a sizzling letter from Hesburgh to all 6,700 students...
Sign-out hours are an example of Mount Holyoke's protectiveness. Girls must be in their dorm by 11 p.m. on week nights, midnight on Friday, and 1 a.m. on Saturday. Catherine P. Robinson, Dean of Residence, justified the stringency of the rules: The Holyoke girl is really freer than she thinks. The college is responsible for minors, and we cannot run a community of 1600 girls without law and order. It is up to the institution to set standards of behavior...
...Kennedy's Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Britain and the U.S. could reduce tariffs up to 50% on all the major items traded between them. Since under the GATT convention, these cuts would also be extended to other nations, the effect would be to open Britain to a freer flow of trade and force the inefficient manufacturers who are endangering Britain's economic health to modernize or perish...
...pursuit of freer trade, President Kennedy last week vetoed a proposal to double tariffs on imported bicycles. Such a reversion to protectionism, he explained, "would hamper our efforts to improve the position of American industry in foreign markets...