Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question answered fastest by the Radcliffe team was one in which the moderator gave the first line of a review of a novel and asked for its author and title. The question was "laid out on a psychiatrist's couch;" the answer: Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth...
...other hand, Alder evidently decided that Adlai Stevenson (who died of natural causes) was acceptable comic terrain for the book, so among Nixon's Wit and Humor is the gem, "Stevenson is a pathetic Hamlet strolling across the political stage. To be or not to be--that is the question of him. And I assure you he is not going to be President of the United States...
...further suggest that academic freedom could not be used as a pretext for degrading the black community at Harvard or across the U.S. When 109 supposedly intelligent men can condone the perpetration of such an obvious insult, under the guise of "academic freedom," then it is time to seriously question and re-define that concept...
...Little Steadiness. The issue comes down to the question of whether or not the board's independence should be curtailed. Paul McCracken, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, would prefer much less short-term monetary tinkering by the board. Like many others, he feels that the board would do better to pay more attention to developing long-term policies for steady economic growth. McCracken would also like to see the Reserve coordinate its policy more closely with the White House. He would probably not go as far as some former Johnson economists, who argue that...
Last September I attended the first meeting of a Soc Rel 148 section. I went there primarily because I wanted an A. The question of grades was raised almost immediately. Described at best as reflections of Harvard's repressive system, we declared them unnecessary. We were here to learn by free communication and self-expression. The conversation fluctuated between A's and B's. In particular, we filled that first cozy hour with a series of emotional assertions to the effect that none of us gave a damn about grades anyway. Suddenly the instructor remembered something. To make the grade...