Word: needing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baccalaureate sermon of 1954 he declared: "This relationship to God--the attitude of reverence--this is the paramount thing. All of us stand perpetually in need in our lives of that basic affirmation which is the essence of faith." In his 1957 address, President Pusey disavowed any tie between faith, and sectarianism in the University: "In my judgment the people who are speaking for religion in universities today should not be understood as speaking in favor of a particular church. They are not asking for special privilege...
This kind of applied public relations will become increasingly important to Harvard as Program-financed buildings replace ramshackle houses in the declining residential areas near the University. To meet the need for a person to sell Harvard to the city, President Pusey last summer created a new post, Administrative Assistant for Civic Affairs, and appointed to it, Charles P. Whitlock, then Senior Tutor of Dudley House...
...tightening money market. The Federal National Mortgage Association braced itself for tighter money by reducing the price it will pay for Government underwritten mortgages from 99% to 97% of face value. When money gets tight, as Fannie May knows, lenders turn in their mortgages to get the cash they need for other investments. But the hike did not faze the stock market, which has dropped more than once at such news. At week's end. it forged ahead to a new record high of 643 on the Dow-Jones industrial average...
...mildly disapproving tone. When women quarrel, he never understands that they are quarreling about him. The girls are pure Marquand, too. always prattling merrily about nothing while the men brood, and when noble-souled John says something portentous to them, they respond with irrelevancies-"You need a haircut...
...what Packard describes as status seeking is indeed foolish, and some of it may be evil; but much of it is also the result of man's human status, and the product of a free and mobile society. In a closed society where "everyone knows his place," people need not and often cannot strive for status; it is given them at birth and stays with them until their fashionable or unfashionable grave...