Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Viewed in this light, the findings of The Academic Marketplace are important only to Deans and Department Chairmen who are trying to improve their recruiting system. But perhaps the matter is more serious. Perhaps recruiting policy is so inefficient and inscrutable that it demoralizes young scholars, or keeps them from entering the profession. Perhaps the emphasis on research is such that these men slight their teaching and come to regard the production of educated men as impossible or irrelevant. Perhaps the emphasis on prestige accounts for the mountains of trivia which annually emanates from the pens of intelligent and humane...
...town Greek church bells pealed for 20 minutes after the London agreement was announced, then stopped. No one was quite sure how to react. What would happen to Colonel George Grivas, mysterious leader of the EOKA terrorist underground, who once pledged himself to keep on fighting, no matter if everyone else gave up? Would he be pardoned by the British, sit down with them as Makarios' Defense Minister, and regale NATO councils with advice on how to wage guerrilla war? What would happen to the island's strained economy if most of the British and their families pulled...
...Biologist Huxley called it absurd that in India's second five-year plan $14 million is being spent on malaria control, which "will certainly increase population, as against the $10 million for all measures that will reduce it. The balancing of death control by birth control is a matter of utmost urgency." India's population, now at 400 million, is growing at the rate of more than 6,000,000 a year...
...matter for debate last week whether any student had been stimulated, but there was no question that something had been done. Of a freshman class of 2,500, half were on scholastic probation...
...other Negro sailors and our dates, I was refused a table at the Copacabana. Nine years later I was back there as the headliner. How do you bridge that gap emotionally?" Asked about his second marriage, to a white girl, he says stiffly that the race question docs not matter: "I don't want to be anybody's brother-in-law. I just want to be his brother...