Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are risks if you do and risks if you don't. One has to balance the risks on one side and the other." And the best word at week's end was that the U.S., caught between necessities of defense and heavy pressure to placate "world opinion," intended to strike a balance of 1) pressing home this year's Eniwetok nuclear-weapons tests come clamor, come what may; but 2) considering, after Eniwetok, whether to follow Khrushchev's lead by declaring future U.S. nuclear tests suspended. Said the President at his news conference: "I would...
...Buffalo. Some Indians of lesser status also disagree with the great architect. A public-opinion poll published by Punjab's leading English-language newspaper, the Tribune, favored postponement of the legislative building as an economy measure. (Retorted Le Corbusier: "What do grocers and peasants know of the work I am doing?") Chandigarhians protest that the plan of the city, built from the periphery inward, leaves too great distances between the buildings. While Le Corbusier is not personally designing the housing, residents complain that his plan results in a built-in caste system, with income groups divided block by block...
...will be the dizziest, busiest merry-go-round in European travel history." Nearly 700,000 voyaging Americans are about to make this breezy prophecy come true. An impressive number of these U.S. tourists will carry a stowaway-Temple Hornaday Fielding. He conies handily packaged in a fact-and opinion-crammed, hard-cover container called Fielding's Travel Guide to Europe, 1958-59 (895 pp.; Sloane; $4.95). Annually revised since its '48 debut, Fielding's Guide has racked up growing sales (the publishers guard actual sales figures like a guilty secret) and established its author...
Frohock believes Dean Elder's recommending changes on the graduate level will have no immediate effect on graduate study in the Romance Languages, because "these things frequently grind on for quite a while." He added that, in his opinion, "it will cause considerable change in a few years...
...university can only achieve greatness when its members agree to disagree. One important area in which such diversity is essential is the realm of religious opinion; in a community of scholars, Church and University, like Church and State, are best separated. Such a separation does not imply abandoning of religious conviction. Instead it affirms a belief that men of all faiths can work together more effectively when all are treated as equal than when some are welcome while others are merely tolerated...