Word: personally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apotheois of relativism and tolerance. At Harvard the values of relativism are quickly transformed from means to ends, from mere method to metaphysics they become the "practical postulates" of a University which wants to embrace spokesmen for opposing views in a harmonious institution. Even the religious person, moreover the believer in salvation through a particular church, must divorce his role of believer from his role of teacher. If he would teach he cannot by direct methods fish for souls...
This kind of applied public relations will become increasingly important to Harvard as Program-financed buildings replace ramshackle houses in the declining residential areas near the University. To meet the need for a person to sell Harvard to the city, President Pusey last summer created a new post, Administrative Assistant for Civic Affairs, and appointed to it, Charles P. Whitlock, then Senior Tutor of Dudley House...
...opinion, Hola's white Camp Commandant Michael Sullivan, whose veracity he frankly doubted. The coroner's verdict was itself curiously negative: "It is impossible to determine beyond reasonable doubt which injuries on the deceased were caused by justifiable and which by unjustifiable blows," or "which particular person struck the blows...
...this enormous creative power is often not sought or realized by reporters themselves. Even more often, the act of creation is performed not by the writer but by an agency or person who has learned how to use the reporter's limitations and rules. Here, Cater does a most impressive job of documenting the many ways in which the press of a free society can be manipulated for selfish ends. The late Senator McCarthy's use of deadlines and of the "unexpected" charge which could not immediately be proved false kept him in the headlines until "over-exposure...
...University saved $5,000. Was this sum, almost an undistinguishable digit in the multi-figured budget of the University, worth all the furor and ill-feeling that resulted? This $5,000, twice the $5,000, and I wager seven times this $5,000 could be saved if some efficient person delved into the general workings of buildings and grounds--the department responsible for the up-keep of University buildings...