Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam-and asking union members to hold down their wage increases, at a time when restraint and sacrifice are being asked of every citizen, the American people will find it hard, as I do. to accept a situation in which a tiny handful of Steel executives whose pursuit of private power and profit exceeds their sense of public responsibility can show such utter contempt for the interest of 185 million Americans...
David W. Crabb, lecturer in African languages at Columbia, defended the teaching of African languages on somewhat different grounds from Welmers. Identifying African languages as a valid branch of linguistics, he stated that "the scientific analysis of systems of communication is a 'high level' academic pursuit and should have a place in every curriculum...
...prestigious Carl M. Loeb. Rhoades & Co.. elfinlike Armand Erpf has displayed an uncanny nose for investment opportunities that has led fellow financiers to label him "a professionals' professional.'' But whenever possible. Erpf likes to combine commercial profit with intellectual advancement-and in his eminently successful pursuit of both goals he has made himself perhaps Wall Street's closest approximation of Renaissance...
...sees. If the desire to represent external reality reflects the loftier idea of "the formation of concepts, which are then modified by visual sensation," the image is bound to return. "For I consider the human faculty of forming concepts at least as inalienable as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
...Marine Corps captain assigned to the OSS, and by 1955 he was president. One of the few top "philanthropoids" to rise through foundation ranks, Gardner is also one of the few with a gift for words. Gardner chiefly drafted the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's famed The Pursuit of Excellence, followed it with his own thoughtful book, Excellence, wrote the education report for President Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, and last year edited President Kennedy's To Turn the Tide...