Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greeks conceived the idea of the atom, and over the centuries it made the nature of matter seem a nice, simple thing. Modern physicists opened the nucleus of the atom, and the whirligig inside opened up a new and wonderful world. But man continues attempts to explain the universe as the harmony envisioned by the Greeks. Einstein thought he could, but never found a way to put his unified field theory to a test. Last week two new and impressive efforts toward harmony were announced in Manhattan and West Berlin. See SCIENCE, "Assumptions of Symmetry...
...impeachment of Eisenhower Club treasurer Walter McLaughlin '60 was rejected by the group's membership last night with a vote of 8 to 3, with two abstentions, equivalent to votes against impeachment. "This majority," club executives concluded last evening, "closes the matter. Other political clubs may waste their time bickering; we," they declared...
Another objection to the existing HSA setup arises over the matter of tax-exemption. Since the HSA has already admitted that non-scholarship as well as scholarship students may work for the organization, it seems unlikely that the profits will be used solely for the purpose of paying the term bills of needy undergraduates. In particular, some of the managers of the individual agencies apparently stand to make in a single year more than the amount of a Harvard term bill. This would seem to be a misuse of the tax-exempt status...
...mystery. Once a painting functions as an entity, poetic licence is justified. But until it does the word is meaningless. This painting does not. If the term "expressionism" means something more than emotionalism, then there is more expression in a plum by Chardin. There is more expression, for that matter, in the study by George Kolbe which accompanies his excellent sculpture. The drawing is a modest, simple statement; one note on pitch is worth a whole cacophonous symphony, theory...
Williams contended that, "It is fantastic to ask whether Harvard is in the Christian tradition," since it is "a matter of historical record" that it is. He also said that the Divinity School should be "free of harassment from the left and right--from the godly and ungodly...