Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilson found it difficult "to maintain friendly relations with men of superior intellect or position," write the authors. Why? They were father figures against whom he could vent the repressed hostility toward his own father, which, as any amateur Freudian knows, lurked behind the ostentatious affection. "Wilson's immoderate Super-Ego demanded from him the impossible." Why? "Because he was the son of God." Faced with aggressive (that is, masculine) resistance to his peace program, he practiced the feminine strategy of capitulation. Why? "His unconscious desire to be Christ invented the comforting theory that he could obtain all that...
...foundations established at Chicago by Harper gave the university an enviable reputation as an outstanding center of graduate instruction and research. The Hutchins' era provoked a mild educational revolution which aroused excitement and suspicion. The University of Chicago is now trying to maintain both of these traditions at a time when, pressured by neighborhood problems and capital needs, the demand for educational greatness is mounting...
...first library in this country, and now the largest university library in the world, is at present necessarily collecting more kinds of material from more parts of the world than ever before, and further, that since the output of books is everywhere rapidly increasing, it will be possible to maintain the present level of collecting only by acquiring more books--and unfortunately, as costs rise, more expensive books--each year than the year before. It is expected that the University collections will pass the 10 million volume mark during the next decade. In addition to buying these books and maintaining...
...general state-wide economy program designed to prevent a tax increase. The Governor and many of the people who elected him want to cut the university and state college appropriation. Yet they want to accommodate an additional 10,000 students--the products of California's population boom--and still maintain the quality of faculties and equipment...
...Galbraith says, the first two would have led to sensationalism and distortion, and to maintain silence would have been to cheat history...