Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demands called for by our widening responsibilities as a nation. Our colleges and universities prepare more and more young people in each generation for positions of trust in the adult life of our society while at the same time the complexities of that society steadily and inexorably multiply. In particular the call for individuals of increased insight, wider knowledge, firmer direction, and all the other qualities of mind and will which it is the colleges' chief purpose to elicit becomes ever more insistent. In the face of this already vast and enlarging obligation an educational institution needs constantly...
While I was delighted to read your article about my brother, Justice William J. Brennan Jr., on the occasion of his appointment to the United States Supreme Court, it contains one particular misstatement which I feel should be corrected. It is not true that after his Army service "he returned to his law firm only upon his insistence that he be made a partner . . ." Rather, he became a partner in the firm in 1938 and terminated his connection with it in 1942, shortly after he entered the Army. He was readmitted to the partnership in 1945 after his discharge from...
...Joke on Tame Cats. The theme of Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is fraud leavened with a little Freud. In particular, it is the kind of fraud practiced by the English, who cling to the belief that if something awkward is ignored, it will go away. Gerald Middleton, handsome, sixtyish and a kind of historian emeritus among English medievalists, has long repressed a suspicion that the 1912 discovery of the Melpham Tomb was a grandiose hoax on a par with Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin...
Selove also said that the danger from cancer-causing radio-strontium depends partly on the concentration of natural calcium in a particular area. Thus some areas, particularly low in calcium, will have a very high relative content of strontium which tends to mix with the calcium and be consumed by human beings...
Farnsworth's remarks above are examples of his attempt to avoid mutual irritations. He says that "there is no particular body of doctrine or special knowledge possessed by the psychiatrist that he wants to pass on to the administrator or educator...