Word: question
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...else would call at nine-thirty on Sunday morning?" Martin wasn't being very pleasant; that was a good start. But Susan didn't know what to say to that question, so Martin asked another one: "What did you want, Susan...
...late Miles Crumgold, Harry and Bill Green Professor of World History. It was Dr. Crumgold's custom to warn his students well in advance of the hour exam that they were in for a " toughie. " As the day approached, he would start hinting at some of the incredibly intricate questions students should prepare for, and with one lecture to go he would-in a burst of charity-pass out a list of relevant items. The actual exam then consisted of a single question, typically " The Eighteenth Century began in 1669. Discuss...
...true that an intense, emotional atmosphere can push people strongly in the direction of what a radical-romantic believes to be the right decisions. This raises a fierce moral problem: there is a question of individual conscience, the right to remain constricted, one might say. I hear my heroes laughing at my very rhetoric, so I will switch to a tactical argument: stable liberation, whatever it might mean, must be reaction to internal needs, not to external circumstances. It is mere intellectual arrogance to point out to a Harvard student that the life is being squeezed...
...time and, indeed, has done so twice in the past four years. This makes a City Manager receptive to policy guidance from the council on crucial issues: at least informally, he wants to make sure he has five council votes backing him before he proceeds on an important question...
...council has been grappling with this question for some time now, but the outcome is not yet clear. The remedies needed to case the changes now threatening the old Cambridge are not obvious: they may not even exist. Finding out if they do exist, and mustering the unity needed to implement them remains the most difficult job the City's political system has faced in memory...