Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goes on from President to President, crisis to crisis, they reached back for some wisdom attributed to Henry Clay, a Secretary of State himself, and a man who knew something about leadership: "I cannot at this juncture clearly foretell the outcome, but I counsel you to cultivate calmness of mind and prepare for the worst...
Califano is famed for his inexhaustible drive, and something about him is always moving: if not his mind, then his feet or his fingers. He is used to taking command, to shoving decisions through, to getting things done. He has a habit of scrambling the chain of command?and confounding and angering the bureaucrats?by pumping information out of the person most directly involved in a program, whatever his rank...
Gilbert's citation reads: A woman of independent mind and great good humor, a loyal daughter of Radcliffe whose capricious heart goes out to Harvard...
...only looked at the Core superficially would understandably come away less than satisfied. College, he says, is a part of a maturing process, a time when students learn to make choices for themselves. "They want to maximize that ability" to make choices, he concedes; even though, in his mind, "the restraints imposed by the Core are quite minimal," he says he understands why the program would appear at first blush to be a considerable restriction on students' range of decision-making. In fact, he adds that if he were an undergraduate today, and had not bothered to study the Core...
...choice system is to make freshmen consider a strategy for getting into a House they like, or staying out of a House they dislike. The lottery application process became reminiscent of the college application process. "Safety Houses," ones which students felt lacked popularity, but which they wouldn't terribly mind living in, were often ranked third...