Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group, quick in their perceptions and brilliant in their conceptions." The Latino also tends to combine the romantic loftiness of Don Quixote with the earthy unscrupulousness of Sancho Panza. He has genius for wholehearted friendship, and this is what U.S. statesmen should appeal to. But "on the level of mundane existence he is prone to be a refined or crude sensualist. He needs material things for life, but he is not squeamish how they are to be acquired. Since leisure, high speculation and ecstacy mean so much to him, he is coldly indifferent to how the material needs of life...
...favor: he has been known to greet visitors in his underwear, date hash-house waitresses, play the bongo drums. In Beatnik Kerouac's phrase, he seems to want everything at the same time. On the other hand, he has been living in a pleasant split-level Hollywood house instead of a way-out pad in San Francisco's North Beach; he has extensive investments; he has never said a single kind word for dope and has expressed interest-grammatically-in what happens to the world tomorrow...
...almost all of eleven positions Lehigh lacks a large amount of depth. Most of this year's second-string men are sophomores who are new at the varsity level, having only played on a successful freshman squad...
...saying, "If we fail to distinguish the uncommon from the common, fail to provide superior teachers for the superior students, fail to reserve the best education for the best qualified and most promising young men and young women, our failures will spell the descent of college education to the level of mediocrity...
...best way to demonstrate the principle of self-determination on Taiwan is to continue with the election process which the Nationalist government is now operating at the local level. Whenever this process can be built up and begin to operate for Taiwan as a whole, under the auspices of the present government, it will go far to show that the people there have a form of democratic self-determination. John K. Fairbank '29, Professor of History...