Word: problem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems, however, that several Councilors view the present situation as a general problem, not only a Harvard one. Councilor Christopher A. Iannella said last night that "I am not opposed to giving institutions property, but I am opposed to their taking the best land off the tax roll." He said that Foley's measure was aimed mainly at other colleges, and the sale to the University probably would be completed...
...higher than at present. By separating freshmen from upperclassmen among commuters as among residents the College would change the emphasis from "freshman commuters" to "commuting freshmen." No longer would a man be able to spend four years at Harvard wholly in the society of the Boston-oriented, and the problem of the commuter at Harvard might be one step nearer solution. Harold L. Burstyn...
...every such case studied at two Pittsburgh clinics, the wife knew of her husband's drinking problem before marriage. ("Marriage to an alcoholic is no accident," echoed the University of North Carolina's Dr. John A. Ewing. "Some women repeat it two or three times.") Dr. Browne cited one woman of 27 who had been beaten as a child by her father, kicked out of the house at 14 by her mother, married at 20 to a drunk. She could take these buffetings, but when her husband was cured of his addiction, she deliberately provoked arguments to start...
PERCY'S problem...
...stories in this collection deal with a problem that has concerned Jews throughout history: Should they or should they not let themselves be assimilated? Most of the Jewish characters in this book have succumbed to the alien and often tempting culture in which they live. Instead of being called Moses or Miriam, children are named Sheila, Kevin, Brenda, Neil. Scythelike noses have been bobbed into gentile unobtrusiveness, Talmudic scholars replaced by star athletes and Socialist singers...