Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capable of service, those who go to the military from those who will be allowed to pick alternatives. But McNamara indicated that he prefered the separation to be made by choice, not by chance. Young men should seek opportunities for service outside the military, he said, suited to their particular skills and interests." The lottery "hasn't been discussed much" in government circles...
McNamara was game for every question, occasionally quipping his way out to avoid embarrassment. After telling reporters that staying in government too long drained an official's "imaginative creative energy," he was asked whether he had anyone particular in mind. "Just one," he said grinning, "myself." When he was asked about "a more personal question" -- whether he might make a special arrangment with a particular draft board -- McNamara nodded in mock seriousness, and then burst into laughter...
...dimensional effect of these sculptures is heightened by the continuity of space -- the absence of distractions -- which a landscape, the sky in particular, provides. Most of Smith's sculpture done after 1950 demands to be seen outdoors...
...dandy, even hankered after, and got, that ultimate mark of bourgeois respectability, the Legion d'honneur. -Manet's approach to painting was to become so embued with and immersed in life that he could safely detach himself from it to heed the higher imperatives of his own particular way of seeing. He served life in order to better serve...
...compromise the Committee members could say they were fulfilling a Harvard dean's personal request for Rindge, rather than the request of a mere student organization. Though it won't be so, it will seem to the public that Harvard, and not the School Committee, is presenting a particular speaker...