Word: problem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...club president after another complains that "student apathy--incredible indifference--is our biggest problem," but none mentioned that this apathy itself is a curious compound. One part is Harvard's way of frowning on enthusiasm; another is the helpless feeling one gets when confronting today's complex issues; and a third is the convenient rationalization that there are no great issues left...
Although the proposal is "being explored," no definite decision is imminent. The Department is currently under heavy strain with preparations for the opening of Quincy House, renovation of the Leverett House Dining Room and problems at the Graduate School. Under the circumstances, the Department has been unable to increase its normal, continued study of the problem...
...Mistress (Japanese). A poignant restatement of the timeless truth that a social problem is a moral problem, which can only have a religious solution...
Fighting inflation is on a par with assuring further economic growth as a national problem, says Canham. One big reason that both the problems of growth and unemployment must be solved: "The U.S. is involved in the greatest competitive struggle in history." Yet Canham favors liberalization of nonstrategic trade with Russia. Says he: "It is definitely in our national interest that the standard of living of the Russian people be improved. But that doesn't mean, for instance, that we should enable them to get into the world petroleum market. That wouldn't necessarily mean a better life...
...picture says no such horrid, controversial thing. According to one billboard, the hero (Montgomery Clift) has a relatively simple problem: "Will he make a good husband?" Though his heart bleeds for humanity, the wound is healed with a kiss, and in the end it looks as though he gets married and lives happily ever after...