Word: resentatives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Student may resent the CEP's caution in not eliminating the requirement altogether, but that was never a live possibility. Ending the requirement would significantly weaken the teaching wing of language departments' graduate programs. Also Dean Ford and others feel that it is vital for Harvard to have a statement supporting the value of language study built into the structure of its curriculum...
...fashioned and untenable. In an era of ecumenism, Orthodoxy tends to be proudly self-sufficient, uninterested in religious dialogue with Reform and Conservative Jews, much less with Christianity. Moreover, Orthodoxy has its own internal struggles; many Hasidic Jews regard their more modern Orthodox brethren as heretics and resent any effort to abandon the cultural traditions of Old Europe...
Rising Role. In his formidable task of trying to persuade businessmen to comply willingly with controls that many resent, "Sandy" Trowbridge will need all of his considerable charm. Athletically trim (6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs.) and handsome as a cinema star, New Jersey-born Trowbridge graduated cum laude from Princeton ('51), won a Bronze Star as a Marine second lieutenant in Korea. A onetime assistant to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (then a Congressman and later Commerce Under Secretary), Trowbridge spent eleven years in the oil industry, mostly in Cuba, El Salvador, the Philippines and Panama. He was president...
...feel that to consult with an Ecuadorian about the programs that will take place here is to deal with him democratically, while insisting that the ultimate decision making power must remain with North Americans. Not only has this attitude communicated itself to Ecuadorians and caused many of them to resent the Peace Corps: it has proved to be remarkably inefficient. For it blinds the organization's programmers to the local conditions they need to understand, and deafens them to the opinions local people set forth about the best way to work here...
Europeans, and others, often resent what they consider American arrogance. "However much I like the Americans," says a Dane, "I must admit that they suffer from a kind of superman mentality." Europeans also resent the fact that U.S. firms deal brusquely or not at all with trade unions, discontinue such traditions as the German breakfast break on company time or the Spanish siesta, and, unlike paternalistic European firms, lay off workers in recessions. When ITT recently considered buying Belgium's second best football team in order to get its stadium for employee recreation, cynical Belgians quickly predicted that...