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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...realization of the coming end of the world has a disruptive effect on one's thinking, it is only because his values have been previously misaligned. For example, if you had been writing a book, you might think the book would be meaningless after the end of the world. However, you can't really write a book because you think people will read it and then think something of you, you have to write it because you enjoy doing...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: All About the End of the World | 10/1/1969 | See Source »

Finally we leave ourselves open to the consideration that there might be intelligent life on other planets even though we will have finished off what there was of it here. The universe is not infinite; we know that for a number of reasons, one of which is that light can't escape it. But some astronomers have estimated that there should be one intelligent technological civilization in every 500,000 stars. This would mean that the nearest to us is less than 1000 light years away. Signals that we have been sending out with our radio astronomy equipment can reach...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: All About the End of the World | 10/1/1969 | See Source »

Conservative caucus members favor the appointment of any new Faculty groups. The conservative group, according to Wilson, feels "shrewd and sensitive" administrators could ensure that all views were represented on any new governing board whereas an elected board might lean to one side or the other...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Faculty Caucuses Are Still Around | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

...meat inspectors, who didn't seem to be trying hard enough to keep the rotten carcasses out of the stores: the United Mine Workers leadership, which cared more about keeping up good relations with the mine owners than in fighting for tougher mine safety laws. To cover anyone who might feel left out. Nader directed more than 100 students ("Nader's Raiders" in the Washington parlance) who spent the summer investigating several government agencies and one famous Washington law firm...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Silhouette Nader at Harvard | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

...areas where change inside the university will make a real difference. Nader himself has been one of the main agitators in the national law school reform movement. The point was that students who want to beat the system have to stop playing by the system's rules. Student bodies might get ROTC off the campus, and that might make a chink in ROTC, which might cut into the war effort. But maybe things would be quicker and more effective if the bodies worked on the Defense Department of General Dynamics instead of sticking to the artificial limits of the university...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Silhouette Nader at Harvard | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

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