Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Question of Compromise. I am not opposed to compromise. It does seem to me, however, that if we announce in advance of any negotiation or any crisis that compromise is an end in itself we will reward extreme positions. This point was really an elaboration of the previous one. It was a criticism of a formalistic approach to negotiations which confuses negotiating techniques with purpose. My argument was that we should stop using slogans like compromise, flexibility or rigidity and debate the substance of the program to which they refer...
...should not justify it on the basis of anti-Communism but on the basis of what we believe in. For this reason, we should feel under no compulsion to match every Soviet economic program but rather carry out those programs which seem dictated by our values and our purposes...
...come off too pretty; though sometimes fetching, the children's scenes come off too cute. Even Mary Martin, however deft, comes off a little too lovable. The milk of human kindness is not enough for The Sound of Music. It insists on the syrup, till even the Nazis seem mere bad goblins in a fairy tale...
Concluded the Alumni News: "Only a very few are thinking about getting out, yet only a few are smugly satisfied. There is, among these teachers, something of the attitude of the pioneer, of adventure rather than calculation. Many seem to have a conviction that there are worlds to conquer, and that, for the first time, there are means at hand to conquer them...
...doesn't seem possible now," Owen stated, "to move in any significant number of graduates." Last spring, the Masters had hoped to re-institute the pre-war plan of providing rooms for these students, but with pressures of deconversion, increased enrollment, and the need for tutor's offices, the plan has been dropped in effect...