Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that an illicit hetero sexual affair has a degree of "authentication," while a homosexual relationship involves only "negation." Roman Catholic thought generally agrees that homosexuality is of and in itself wrong because, as New York's Msgr. Thomas McGovern says, it is "inordinate, having no direction toward a proper aim." Even in purely nonreligious terms, homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty and, in the words of one Catholic educator, of "human construction." It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life. As such it deserves fairness, compassion, understanding and, when possible...
...Angels' emblem, they sobbed. Only after the funeral oration, when the coffin was placed in the hearse, did the sound that Miles lived and died by suddenly deafen the bystanders as the cortege gunned its way to the cemetery. "We wanted to see he got a proper burial," explained one sorrowing Angel. "Mother would have wanted it this...
...Sizer insists that Harvard should be concerned with "what schools should be like in the future, and to train people for service in them now." A school of education, he believes, must seek a balance between "the wisdom gained from detachment and that from commitment." The search for the proper mix between necessary involvement in social reform and a more aloof and thoughtful attitude toward education is nothing new, in Sizer's view, but the challenge for Harvard is that "no institution has so far achieved...
...Unless a proper circulation
...developing the Kansas City stockyards and investing in real estate, street railways, fertilizer and packing plants, and he had reigned six years as president of the Union Pacific (Jay Gould deposed him in a power struggle in 1890). Bored with business, he turned to intellectual pursuits. Eventually, like a proper Adams, he became a historian of some note, president of the American Historical Association, an overseer of Harvard. By the time he died in 1915 at the age of 79, he had become such a complete victim of the family compulsion to put words on paper that he had even...