Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common agreement the University is "secular" and its teaching function toward the undergraduate demands that religious preconceptions be discounted as much as possible. Gilmore gives an example of the different ways in which a church and a university handle momentous intellectual questions: "Augustine would never say to Pelagius, 'Let us examine your position on grace, Pelagius ...' as Socrates would say to Thrasmymachus, 'Let us examine your position on virtue.' The atmosphere of the University," Gilmore holds, "must be the Platonic rather than the Augustinian...
Bastard Daughter. Though the Nationalist soldiers had fled, the Communists were not left without opponents. Let the Reds do their damnedest, boasted cocky Shanghailanders, we will change them before they change us. Big, brawling and unpredictable, the "bastard daughter of the West and China," proud of its reputation as the noisiest, wickedest, dirtiest and most vital city in the world, Shanghai was long accustomed to swift alternations of luck. Its quick-witted citizens viewed other Chinese as yokels. Though impressed by the discipline of the Red troops...
...first instinct of the Red rulers was to let the city wither and die as a hated symbol of capitalism. The busy docks, which had berthed as many as 30 ships a day, stood empty; factories were stripped of machinery; efforts were made to reduce Shanghai's "swollen and unreasonable" population by deporting surplus workers to the provinces. A wave of suicides swept the city. Foreigners, who had once numbered 60,000, dwindled to a handful (there are now fewer than 100 Westerners, of whom 53 are British), while the Reds confiscated millions of dollars' worth of Western...
...special consideration in the Lazzaretto Spallanzani. (Despite intensive treatment in France with sulfone drugs, the once powerful Orano was by this time gnarled and weakened, his handsome face disfigured, his blue eyes clouded.) But the promises were soon forgotten. Roman bureaucrats enforced the letter of antiquated Italian law. They let the faithful Giulia live with him in an isolated cottage (he is the only leprosy victim in Spallanzani), forced her to take full care of him, gave him little treatment. Once he broke out to make a placarded public protest-in vain. Again his "acquaintance are verily estranged" from...
...having second thoughts about their standardized and monotonous displays, efficient atmosphere. "We've probably done ourselves a disservice by packaging tomatoes," says Kroger President Joseph B. Hall. "I think a housewife would still like to be able to pinch a tomato before she buys, and maybe we should let her. It might spoil a few tomatoes, but we'd probably sell more in the long...