Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton man, do or die," but he's not "the Old Grad type." The new president, Princeton's youngest since 1761, will consider the club issue in the light of how they serve the university, not how they stimulate alumni fund raising. "He's a non-aristocratic person, and he's simply a darn nice guy," a friend said last night...
...only other person who ever knew was my geography professor. He used to ride motorcycles and had a bashed nose. So he never told anyone," Hollister says...
...single letter will be sent out in the spring of 1958 asking for a "token contribution to the Fund, Reynolds said. After June 30, 1958, solicitations will resume as usual, but in the intervening ten months solicitors for the Program will try to see every College alumnus in person, and the Fund will be de-emphasized...
...archetypal individual gives his novels more continuity; emphasis on a diverse society might increase their value as social history. Guthrie seems in many ways rather like his creation, Dick Summers (a man who wishes with romantic nostalgia that the West had not been profaned by settlement), rather than a person capable of intellectually determining the spirit of the Westerner. But then reflection on one's cultural background usually comes at a later period in history than he is now depicting, a time when physical obstacles have been overcome. There is hope that in his forthcoming novels he will attempt...
Unfortunately, concluded Rickover, "the very thought of recognizing differences in intellectual ability is repugnant to our equalitarian philosophy . . . We are committed to the basic assumption that there is no person who can claim to be an indispensable man. We proceed from this entirely correct assumption to the incorrect conclusion that neither does a democracy have indispensable men. This is obviously erroneous ... No society can function without its indispensable...