Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choice: Should he put his faith in Edward Teller, the "father of the H-bomb," or in Linus Pauling or Edward Condon, two scientists who have so long leaned toward the left (politically) that they are no longer able to discern what is right (militarily or morally)? I prefer to trust my nuclear future to Dr. Teller...
...read papers or hold serious discussions. The concern for academic discipline, and especially for moral education, has almost disappeared. The assumption that a group of interesting people will spontaneously produce brilliant conversation when brought together does not often hold true after a morning of classes when most members prefer to relax rather than to emanate or to absorb culture. Signet is used more as a pleasant eating club than as an intellectual society by many people who go there. Today, a large percentage of its membership belongs to final clubs, and a number of the rest appears to desire entrance...
...Harvard is compelled to attend the services of a particular church (or temple, or mosque); but neither should any church be compelled to admit into itself ceremonies of other sects. To insist on such compulsion is certainly not to favor tolerance against intolerance. It is rather to prefer irreligion (or perhaps mere religiosity) to every conviction of religious reality. By welcoming, without query, the services of all faiths, the church would in effect exclude everyone whose religion is more than a gesture; it would be making itself into a shrine to the one unifying faith of Harvard indifference...
...family, low-rent housing projects. Brooklyn's famed Fort Greene Houses, one of the world's biggest housing projects (3,500 families: 57% Negro, 18% Puerto Rican) is a $20 million slum with a third of its families on relief. At Fort Greene some residents prefer to use the stairs rather than face the "stench of stale urine that pervades the elevators." "Nowhere this side of Moscow," writes Salisbury, "are you likely to find public housing so closely duplicating the squalor it was designed to supplant." A heavy portion of the 300,000 Puerto Ricans and many...
...position to cut prices enough to spur consumption so long as basic crude prices remain high. The price of domestic crude in the U.S., for example, has jumped from $2.84 per bbl. in 1956 to $3.16 today, and producers make no bones about the fact that they prefer to cut production rather than drop prices sharply in a wholehearted campaign to increase sales...