Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible for a student to get a degree without getting an education (I am now speaking of college generally, not of Harvard only). For education is primarily a matter of attitudes. By an educated man I mean one who has achieved a self-knowledge of his ignorance and consequently has waked up from his dogmatic slumber; one who has a sense of wonder leading to active inquiry--and here I have in mind a concern for the truth, rather than showing off one's cleverness. Finally, education should give a man the most rigorous methods and standards, thus ensuring that...
...appearance of complacency, of course, can mean two different things: either we're so sure of ourselves that we don't have to move, or we're so frightened we can't. With the release of the Rockefeller Report and the failure to release the Gaither Report, it would appear that the second estimate of our posture is the more realistic...
...worse than it really was." Even Columnist Doris Fleeson, whose ardent Stevensonian viewpoint would ordinarily give little reason for applauding anything done by Republican Dwight Eisenhower in Paris, noted that the Eisenhower-Dulles speeches "made the Paris results seem less effective than they actually were. For it is no mean feat to hold a defensive alliance together when an aggressor seems to be going strong. This was achieved in Paris against odds." Far from using the NATO conference as a springboard for progress, the television report was a faltering step backward...
...Queen's loyal subjects clearly liked Elizabeth just as she was. Said a cockney cab driver: "I vote Labor every time. But there's nothing like our Queen. No President could talk like that and mean what she means to everyone." A university student was even more choked up: "She really shot back at her critics. After hearing her, my Dad said to me, 'Ruddy good show, that,' and that's just what...
...father, that he came under the strong influence of his mother, "who had a lot of marriages." Kahler told of the "agony" of taunts by schoolmates, confessed that as a result of his problem, he had been doing "a lot of drinking, an immensely lot of drinking, I mean a lot of drinking...