Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this work for scientific reasons," Eron said yesterday. "It was fun to do-cute tricks and all that. But the more we think about it, the consequences of our work seem frightening rather than beneficial...
...know if it is because institutions seem to be crumbling about us, or because what happened in the past appears embarrassing, but this book strikes me as very unreal. The Advocate simply isn't like that any more. These earnest poems, this heritage! To think that all these distant figures were great, that we too may become like them. What seems so impossible to us now is that anything could have happened to damage them. Their names, engraved in faint gold lettering on wooden plaques, crowd the walls of the Sanctum on the second floor of our House...
...anthropologist Irven DcVore, the committee consists of four faculty members and two graduate students. DeVore readily admitted that he is in favor of retaining the present departmental arrangement. As he sees it, there are two groups involved: the people who want to split, and a "silent majority" who seem mostly ambivalent. (Even Parsons says he's ambivalent these days.) DeVore hopes his committee will be a "spokesman for the silent majority," So far, the committee...
Yesterday afternoon, I met for an hour and a half with three members of the Personnel Office: Messrs. Kielly, Powers and Moulton, Perhaps I will be criticized for what may seem to some as a "ruling class position" but I must admit that I was impressed not only by the sincerity of these men but also by their awareness and sensitivity to inequities which may exist in the present system. I am fully convinced that, if there are problems concerning wages for painters' helpers, they do not emerge from racist attitudes and that these men as well as Ernest...
...Dillon Field House yesterday afternoon. It was after five o'clock, and it was quite dark. The Crimson, under the direction of veteran coach John Yovicsin, was practicing on a field near the track bubble, and the turf was so wet, slippery, and sponge-like it really didn't seem worth...