Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pusey called the Soviet satellite "a triumph of Soviet technology which points to the seriousness with which the Russians regard the technical side of education...We would do well to be as serious about our own superb and diverse enterprise as are the Russians." He stressed the importance of making a "consistent surge of effort" towards education, rather than "moving from one temporary objective to another as each emergency arises...
Recent Russian scientific achievements, culminating in the firing of Sputnik, have strengthened the Soviet Union's position in regard to the satellite nations, and the uncommitted areas of the world, she said. Lack of knowledge and of understanding of our problems, inter-service rivalries, and a "McCarthyist" idea that the secrets of the A-bomb could be "locked up" has lost this race for America, she charged. She also criticized our emphasis on "lethal weapons...
...rests upon an expansion of the "eye for an eye" dogma. A crime, they say, warrants a punishment equal to its viciousness. But modern penal theory and greater concern for the individual life strongly dilute these arguments. Britain's Sir John Anderson states, "There is no longer in our regard of the criminal law any recognition of such primitive conceptions as atonement or retribution." A dogmatic, retaliatory instinct cannot justify the ultimate penalty...
...Free Speech!" Most Poles seemed to regard the riots as a strictly student affair. Biggest unknown was whether the students' protests would be taken up by Poland's well-organized and politically conscious factory workers, who had been in the forefront of the Poznan rebellion. If they were, Gomulka would find himself in serious trouble. So far, most major factory-workers units refused to sign petitions calling on the students to desist...
Those freshmen who survive their first year without acquiring the uncomfortable sensation that Lamont's glassy exterior has begun to grin diabolically at them, will probably regard the prospect of three years in this new edifice with equanimity...