Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mankind Minus One. Abraham Lincoln's life connects colonial America with modern America; Jefferson died when Lincoln was 17, Woodrow Wilson was eight when Lincoln died. While America was fighting its war, the greater battle of the modern world was already joined...
John Stuart Mill had finished his essay "On Liberty," in which he expressed the horror with which 19th century liberalism regarded the state, and enunciated the magnificent principle that "if all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion," mankind would still not be justified in silencing him. Yet at that very time, Karl Marx was writing Das Kapital, striking back at liberal individualism in the name of mankind. For the industrial worker, argued Marx, had been "reduced to a mere fragment of a man, mentally and physically dehumanized," and only collective...
...varsity track team minus Ed Hamlin, Chris Ohiri, and Jack Spitzberg faces a strong, but not quite strong enough, Princeton squad in Soldiers field at 2 p.m. this afternoon. The Crimson is a heavy favorite to win its thirteenth consecutive dual meet...
...seminar on the contents of Shaw's remarkably closed mind. Religion is hypocrisy. Armies are idiotic. The British upper classes are smugly ignorant of life; the lower classes are self-taught fanatics and uncouth blackguards. As destiny's dutiful darling, G.B.S. slays these asses with his jawbone. Minus his customary wit, Shaw is a nagging scold. In a final soliloquy, delivered with fine evangelistic fervor by Robert Preston, the great iconoclast pitiably begs for an icon worthy of his worship...
There are six charts in 5BX, each with five exercises increasing in difficulty from chart to chart. The aspirant to fitness is expected to work up through twelve different levels of quantity and speed on each chart before progressing to the next. Thus the D-minus level of chart 3 must do 20 sit-ups in one minute, but the A-plus level should do 32 in the same time. Ordinary civilians 40-to-44 are advised to aspire to nothing higher than Level C of Chart 3 (see cut): Exercise 1, 26 times in two minutes; Exercise...