Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nervously paces the hallway outside the committee's meeting room. Sunday afternoon is set aside for "legacy review" to make sure the alumni have not been slighted. Monday morning is "geographic review," to make sure the regional mix is right. Then a waiting list of some 500 candidates must be drawn up; for most, it is Brown's polite way of saying that they came close but could not be squeezed in. Rogers will also look at the ratio of males to females. Last year Brown took more women than men, although more men than women applied. This...
...while serving in seven governments and every parliament since 1946. Sometimes called the Ugocentric for his strong individuality, he was also nicknamed Cassandra for his pessimism. But he was perhaps best known as the Conscience of Italy for his personal integrity and his not always popular insistence that Italians must work harder, pay more taxes and live within their means...
...become famous, the son replied: "I'll make my body." That he did for the rest of his life, absorbing punishment as a boxer, hunter, mountain climber and rancher. In Roosevelt's last year at Harvard, a physician warned him that he had overtaxed his heart and must lead a more sedentary life. Vowed Teddy: "Doctor, I'm going to do all the things you tell me not to do. If I've got to live the sort of life you have described, I don't care how short...
...sure which I was more upset about, that she had ruined my evening utterly by sickening me or that she had revealed in me a vulnerability that I didn't realize still existed. In her stories she had written about blacks with no overtly racist edge. Now I must look at her stories again, and more carefully. I can only hope that the glib pontificator of that evening, the framer of vacuous sentences, is at odds with the humbler personality of the writer at home...
...largely motivated, according to the faculty, by growing concerns about the ethical content of a Harvard College education. It's been asserted that the Harvard stamp should attach only to humans capable of thinking in value-terms and able to make responsible, value-laden decisions, which we all must do every day. A University which, in its operations in the world, fails to struggle with the practice of what it "preaches" in its classrooms, truly exposes its freedom and independence to the greatest jeopardy. For through such a contradiction it subverts the integrity of its curriculum and the authority...