Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Extracurricular activities have hindered academic interest due to the concept of the successful Yale man. This is a concept where the good student is sub-ordinated to a perverted notion of the 'well-rounded' person. If there is to be a revival of academic interest at Yale, then there will have to be a de-emphasis in the whole sphere of extracurricular activities. The recent creation of the Ivy League is a significant step in preventing undue emphasis on athletics...
Health Service physicians emphasized that chances of contracting the disease are a matter of "individual susceptibility," and that "a person who is run down or overtired would be more likely to be affected by the bacillus...
...organ of parties in government, no person regardless of rank, merits, history or past victories has the right to silence critics." There should be no more terror: the new education of the masses must "be carried on seriously but with the gentleness of a breeze or of light rain . . . Except in major offenses against law or discipline, all should be exempt from punitive measures. Self-criticism and criticism of others should take place in heart-to-heart talks between comrades. There must be no mass public assemblies and no battles." The new campaign even went...
...agree not to run any stories on British criminal cases without first clearing the copy with Smith's. Other U.S. publications were more likely to accept in Britain, as they do at home, responsibility for the accuracy and legality of what they print and, in effect, provide a person to be sued in British courts. This, plus a promise to indemnify distributors against damages, could leave the distributors free to distribute foreign publications without the "screening" threatened by Smith's. It was not the ideal way to avoid what many Britons were quick to call "censorship." 'There...
High Living. In Tel Aviv, Israel, a court acquitted Eliahu Migdal of disturbing the peace with a noisy card game on his open balcony late one night, ruled: "There is no lawful limit on the amount of noise a person may make on his own balcony...