Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is no laughing matter...
Jack Kennedy is the answer to slick Dick Nixon, who will almost certainly be the Republican candidate. It's only a matter of time now until Kennedy's enemies begin circulating the stories about building a tunnel to the Vatican or bringing the Pope to Washington, but Jack's religion makes no difference to me-he gets my vote...
...bombast-pricking headlines and jokes made by America's free world friends point right to the heart of the matter. The Viennese designation of "spätnik" (meaning "latenik") and the Mexican reference to "stallnik" are both gibes at the overblown way in which public relations men and the American press built a giant anticlimax by trying to create a climax where it was not normal for a climax to come-in the midst of a delicate experiment...
...believe that "truth" exists independently of their efforts to embody this truth in verbal or symbolic formulations. They further believe that they have direct access to this truth, and they therefore assume that if they make a statement which is not false, they are necessarily increasing human knowledge, no matter how inane, inarticulate, or inept their formulation...
Lawrence Ekpebu of Lowell, Chitranjan Kapur of Winthrop, and Lionel B. Spiro of Leverett, were chosen to represent the class of '60. Both Dogherty and Gracey had expressed opinions favoring changes in the present status of the Student Council, whereas Leland criticized any plan for a referendum on the matter...