Word: giving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groups of medical students have appeared in the last few days to ask Dr. Robert H. Ebert, the Med School dean, to give up his seat on the board of Squibb-Beech-Nut Inc., makers of Squibb pharmaceuticals...
Over the summer, Ebert decided that the arrangement might give the appearance of a conflict. He says he tried to resign from the board, and finally agreed to stay on as a "public" director. He sold all his Squibb stock and no longer has any personal financial interest in the company's performance...
...bothered to produce two years of weekly columns on TV for The New Yorker, and then publish the best of them as The Living Room War, is that one hundred million or more people feed on television daily. It hammers them like malleable gold; it takes and does not give; it bludgeons man, and voraciously relieves him of whatever sensitivity he timorously guards. Television has been described with varying enthusiasm as the great galvanizer, tranquilizer, hypnotizer, pacifier, stupefier, paralyzer, agitator, commentator, activator, adjudicator, erupter, corruptor. It provides a daily vindication of American technological genius, a daily spectacle of panoramic American...
Then there's the work. Some editors devote more time to the Crimson than to all their courses combined. Of course, not many people do this, and it's expected of no one. We only mention it to show how absorbing the work can be, if you give it the chance. And it isn't beside the point that Crimson editors have a higher grade average than their schoolmates, despite Crimson labors...
THIS AFTERNOON the Faculty will be asked to consider two resolutions relating to the war in Vietnam. The Faculty should pass both resolutions and give its support to efforts at ending an intolerable...