Word: qua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to be the least integral of Harvard's many organs. Yet the Press's policy, according to Thomas J. Wilson, its director for 20 years, is "to publish as many good scholarly books as possible short of bankruptcy." That is its justification, for accessible scholarship is the sine qua non of a university...
Hovde, on the other hand, thinks a condemnation of the war would have been "overwhelmingly defeated." This does not mean that a majority of the faculty favors Johnson's policy in Southeast Asia; only that a majority feels that the faculty should not take a stand, qua faculty, on such an issue...
Died. Lester Weatherwax, 79, last survivor of the Weatherwax Brothers Quartet, a pre-World War I Chautau-qua-circuit singing group that so popularized the Little Brown Church in the Vale that the 102-year-old church, with a congregation of only 150, draws 125,000 tourists a year to Nashua, Iowa, has been the scene of 52,000 weddings; of a heart attack; in Wichita, Kans...
...communist forces in the South, though they are probably making the logistics of supplying these forces more difficult; and they are exacting an enormous cost from the United States in terms of planes and pilots lost. A stop to the bombing, moreover, appears to be a sine qua non for negotiations in the foreseeable future...
...famous erotic poet on grounds that he gave too much of himself to his stanzas, Gertrud is about to leave her husband (Bendt Rothe), a lawyer with Cabinet-level aspirations. Briefly, she tries a flighty playboy-pianist who decides that "the complete absorption of one another" as the sine qua non of sensual pleasure is not for him. Life ends, for Gertrud, in white-haired seclusion, though she still declares her credo to be love above...