Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert R. Young story. A working newsman, I've read enough suicide stories to perhaps grow a trifle cynical. But to such men as Young, success must be synonymous with life. The loss of success makes life unbearable. Statistics point to suicides frequently among the wealthy, often educated men and women. This indicates that money and prestige may not be answers. Suicide is a tragic parody of values gone haywire...
Personal Traits. A small, darting man with jutting jaw and deep blue eyes, he guards his health (he had a three-year bout with tuberculosis as a youth) by riding horseback often, spending each weekend at the house he was born in, to which he has added a top story and a green-tiled bath. A dynamic orator with a superb rabble-raising style, he talks to his people nowadays in weekly radio chats, using simple Arabic and vivid images. He dislikes administrative responsibility and paper work, loves parties and the theater, seldom dines with fewer than 20. A light...
...somebody so the clubs can again point with pride to the precious statistic of 100%--"100% of those wishing to join a club did so"--the number by which alone the system can be justified. It must be able to claim the fact of 100%, no matter how often or how strangely 100% must be re-defined...
...selectivity. As a member of Key and Seal expressed it, "In a democracy we are supposedly free to become as exclusive or as gregarious as we like, and if in a club situation we choose to be exclusive, this is our privilege." From that bit of casuistry--more often expressed as an innocent belief that "you've got a right to choose your friends and the guys you're going to eat with--the code of values can be relentlessly deduced which summarily condemns certain personality traits, ethnic groups, and even scholarship, intellectualism, and originality themselves...
...Radcliffe shift to Stillman will mean that more time can be devoted to Annex service; that administration will be less cumbersome; and most important, that sick Radcliffe students will more often be treated by doctors rather than by nurses or methods of selfmedication, Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Services, indicated...