Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed be literally translated as "With seven nurses the child has no eye." However, it does not mean at all that the child in question goes blind, even in one eye. Rather it simply indicates that the child is without proper supervision, since no nurse keeps an eye on him, relying in that respect on other nurses...
Meanwhile the other side cannot very well sit there and let the United States and the South Vietnamese governments do what ever hey want. The recent attacks, therefore, do not mean that the Viet Cong are making their last efforts to influence the peace talks. What it means is that since President Thieu defines peace as the death of all the communists and also of the "peace pretenders," and since his effort is backed directly or indirectly by the presence of a large foreign force with all this war-making gadgetry, the war must...
...second fact is that the radical solution, in whatever precise form it eventually comes to be presented, has common sense on its side. It is possible to demonstrate the enormous social costs of modern capitalism. The need for change can be clearly shown to people. This does not mean that these things will be done. I am merely suggesting that we should begin by assuming that change is not impossible, that there are alternatives to giving up or flipping...
...critical importance of the $30,000 to $50,000 saved each year by reductions in the scholarships of students on probation--particularly in view of the Committee's request for a $1.5 million budget for next year. If the scholarship Committee does indeed run a deficit, that can only mean that the Faculty should reconsider the priorities of its budget. Harvard needs to allocate much more money towards the recruitment of students from low-income families. The solution to the scholarship situation is not to be found in miserly quibbling over the tiny amounts of money being withdrawn from students...
...most brutal formulation of this problem," Dean Ford said recently, "is that a merger might mean achieving sexual diversity at the expense of other kinds of diversity." Ford added that it is not yet clear how much money would be needed to bring Radcliffe scholarships up to the level of Harvard's; a study on that question will probably be ready by the Faculty's April meeting...