Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advocate no such system. There is no group of men that can be trusted to reason perfectly. Until one such appears, we prefer to take our chances with a complete democracy...
...mixed viewing, but "most of the comments preclude having a date," says a Stanford Sigma Chi. Watching "all those fine young bods sway" just seems more comfortable stag. And of course the boys like to "scope in the sports real deep," a time when any self-respecting female would prefer doing almost anything else...
Many of today's artists prefer to call their unlikely likenesses "interpretations" rather than portraits. Abstractionist Hugo Weber became friends with Mies van der Rohe while they both were teaching at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Not until 15 years later did Mies permit a portrait, and then Weber had to sketch while the architect worked at his desk. The blue of Mies's habitual business suit pervades a shoulder-swaying pose as slashing as icy spindrift. Weber still does not know if his subject was pleased, but Mies did buy one of his oils and three drawings...
Still, landing on firm ground, instead of the warm oceans where U.S. astronauts dunk themselves, has its advantages. The Russians may do it primarily because they possess vast areas of flat and almost uninhabited territory, but they also prefer it. A spacecraft that descends too fast will hit the ground with little more impact than if it hits water. And survival on solid ground is a lesser problem than after a water landing. There is no chance that the men will drown or that their ship will sink if not picked up promptly. Storms do not corrugate the land with...
Chalmers has conjectured that only about half of the College would elect to plan their own program and that the other half "would prefer to be told what to do." But many people feel to tied-town by the current rules, he said, and such a system would "provide the greatest flexibility for those who want...