Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heaven's Sake (20th Century-Fox] is a tasteless whimsy unworthy of Scripter-Director George (Miracle on 34th Street) Seaton, who bolted it together out of a deservedly unproduced play by Harry (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) Segall. It concerns two angels (Clifton Webb and Edmund Gwenn) who are sent on an earthly mission to inspire procreation by a selfishly childless theatrical couple (Joan Bennett and Robert Cummings...
...students, professors, and officers. Among these were President Griswold ("Yale is more of a come-outer college . . . People should do what they do because they want to do it, not because they want to get ahead."), four College masters (one: "There's too much of a success-for-the-sake-of-success attitude here."), and an executive of Mr. Ellis' own paper ("Yale is a trade school for success.") Their conclusion agreed with a recent study of Yale society, based on cross-section polls and published as a sociology thesis...
...split again last week. Three of the nine Liberal M.P.s voted with the Labor government to defeat a Liberal-backed Conservative amendment attacking Socialist housing plans. The minute splinter group abstained from two other votes, protesting against the Tory "practice of forcing a series of divisions purely for the sake of opposition, thereby artificially keeping in being a state of crisis." Cracked the Tory Daily Telegraph: "A unique case of splitting the atom without generating power...
...push to become a "wheel," to be socially acceptable, to approximate that archtype of merit, the Yale Man. Not that the Administration nurse this tradition: president and deans admit ruefully that Yale is a college of come-outers and go-getters and deplores the philosophy of "success for the sake of success." But the tradition is still there. A recent study of Yale society concluded, "Because the definition of success permeates the whole community, the Yale social system tends to be a training for this type of successful...
Despite the cohesiveness that Yale-manism brings the administration is against it. "Emphasis tends to be put in extra-curricular activities more or less apart from personal worth or intellectual achievement," says a housemaster. "Success for the sake of success is blowing up an artificial coin. Harvard is a good step above Yale and Princeton in university maturity." President A. Whitney Griswold, who once turned down a Skull and Bones bid to become Wolf's Head, agrees. "We could learn much from Harvard's independence," he says. "But the administration is like a cork floating in a whirlpool...