Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free. Yet how often does one of the products of this Four Years come home from the office, open his collar, and complain that he is too tired to read a "worth while" book? How many college graduates-or specifically, Harvard graduates-regard the Four Years as one particular phase of their lives, to be approached, digested, and then forgotten in the exigencies of the "real, concrete" side of life...
When there is unanimous agreement between the department, the ad hoc committee, and the Administration, the Corporation will usually rubber stamp the appointment. If the latter groups decide that no candidate should be chosen at that particular time, the Corporation will also concur. About one out of 20 nominations is defeated by the Corporation, usually where the ad hoc committee has recommended no action...
Staggering Goal. As facts about the venture in Kazakhstan seeped out of Russia, outside experts were struck by two things in particular: 1) the declared goal was staggering-to make over 32 million acres of land, and to plow, sow and harvest 18 to 20 million tons of grain there within only two years; 2) the Kremlin was willing to rob its established farmlands of machinery and its factories of manpower to exploit the virgin lands. Taking from other sectors of the economy to build the new enterprise brought to mind Russian Satirist Krylov's fable of Trishka...
...That particular story in the May 24 issue on the Adams testimony was a masterpiece of wit on a masterpiece of silliness. As far as I'm concerned, the Government should stop squandering money on the hearings, and turn them over to some soap manufacturer who could call the show "McCarthy Faces Life...
Jenkins asked if Adams was being facetious or dead serious. Replied Cohn, "Sir, it is very difficult for me to try to read Mr. Adams' mind or chart his emotional position at that particular moment...