Word: laxness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a tie for third place in the Ivy League Saturday, when it staved off a fourth quarter rally by Columbia, pushed over two touchdowns itself, and went on to win, 38 to 22. The Lion threat to repeat Cornell's upset victory of the previous week toughened the lax and complacent Crimson eleven, and irked it into running up the highest Crimson score since the varsity's 60-6 win over Massachusetts...
...board of education announced key reforms: building new schools in fringe areas to foster integration, tightening lax transfer policies to stop school desertions by white parents, preventing qualified teachers from taking assignments only in "easy" schools. But progress has been so "spotty and slow," the A.J.C. reported, that many new schools have been poorly located, become segregated as soon as they open. Worse, the top teachers, so badly needed in segregated schools, are able to ignore them under a tacit policy that still allows the teachers to work where they please...
...convert and the others were born Catholics. Of those, however, who were reared in a Catholic tradition, almost one fourth now declare themselves to be "agnostics" or "atheists." Another six retain formal affiliation with the Church but partially withhold intellectual assent or seem lax in their religious practices, though they have no particular disagreement with Catholic theology...
Losers Win. In the race for the winner's purse, dancers wiped out their rivals by slipping them Mickeys or Ex-Lax. Old-timers advised first-timers to don wet stockings (it gave them blisters); women slugged other women cold. Men and women huddled and sometimes made love while wrapped in blankets. "I never did understand the spectators," says June. "They neglected home, children, work. They were drawn to us by the climate of cruelty in the world. Our degradation was entertainment; sadism was sexy; masochism was talent...
...this in a lecture course; the Faculty has wisely realized that the best opportunity for awakening such a drive is in the close, personal contact between student and tutor found in a tutorial session, where the student is forced to think perceptively. But the Faculty has been curiously lax in extending the opportunity for such thinking to the non-Honors student, the one who is perhaps in greatest need of the awakening of what the President calls a "resistless drive." Frequently it is the non-Honors student who attempts stimulation in activities rather than academics, and when he sees that...