Word: preventing
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...admissions. The policy is partially intended to provide a nationwide diffusion of alumni; but its extension to the House system indicates the Administration's conviction that association with students of different backgrounds is valuable to the educational experience. As applied to Harvard, however, this policy does little more than prevent domination by one type. Its positive advantages are relatively superficial, providing a deceptive variety which extends to manners and customs, but in general, no deeper...
College may not be the proper time for this kind of sympathetic attitude; it is the time for scepticism. But scepticism need not be hostile; nor must selfconscious awareness of subjectivity prevent emotional involvement. Nothing would be more absurd than to strive for an artificial warmth or some sort of reinfused provincialism. Kindness and enthusiasm are natural qualities; the problem is to preserve them through college. Harvard offers a challenge to the student to maintain his intellectual intergrity in the face of the fashionable consensus, and to observe, while at college, the standards by which he intends to lead...
...tipping him off, and then turned on a "certain leading power" that furnishes arms to both Thailand and South Viet Nam. Demanding to know why the U.S., if not involved, had not told him of the plot, Sihanouk fired off a message to President Eisenhower asking U.S. intervention to prevent "further subversion" of Cambodia with U.S. arms...
...Burst into a Havana radio and TV station, rambled on for three hours and 20 minutes about threats of counterrevolution. His enemies, he protested, "are buying arms in Miami," and the FBI is doing nothing to prevent...
...Pamela found it such a "naively pure" town ("Peyton Place was squeamish by comparison") that she has felt compelled to educate it ever since. She has feuded with Columnist Hedda Hopper ("a dreadful person"), constantly popped off with suggestions such as harems for Hollywood husbands in order to prevent "messes like Eddie Fisher and Liz Taylor...