Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picks his controversies with care. "A fellow that's shooting off his mouth all the time-nobody listens to him after a while," he says. In 1957 Kennedy led a fight to elect some moderates to Los Angeles' conservative-dominated school board-and as a reward found himself named to the State Board of Education...
Greeting the initiates of the Radcliffe chapter and the established members in the Harvard community, Mrs. Bunting observed that the goal of membership in PBK probably does not stimulate anyone to academic achievement. Election is "recognition after the fact," she said, a reward for work well done...
There is a function which no Harvard institution serves, and that is to encourage intellectual breadth. Mr. Pusey, I hope, had in mind that good use of the intellect includes more than applying it to curriculum, and that PBK might reward this broader...
First, PBK should explicitly and consistently encourage breadth of academic endeavor. The electors are often faced with choosing between the all-A physicist and one who has gotten all A's and a B in a history course. Since they may be assured that the physics department will reward the all-A man, they should make PBK one place (and it would be the only place in the College) where the experimenter is rewarded...
More important than recollections of first cigarettes, however, is Tom's memory of Ellen, the girl next door, whom he loves without reward. She speaks to him "across too great a distance, too soft a silence, ... a vault filled with confusion... and swelling with love for one who merely receives: the ferment of the love-going of a one-way street...