Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before and during the McCarthy era. The document states that Kissinger voluntarily provided information to the FBI, information he obtained by opening the mail of a seminar participant without his knowledge. (Technically, Kissinger could be charged with tampering with the U.S. mail, but he does not seem to be panicking about that...
...cared about art, who sought it out as a first-hand experience rather than accepting passively what was flashed up on the projector or dished out in the anthologies. The guardians of the humanities do little to convince undergraduates of the importance of their subjects, and indeed do not seem very worried. To cite just one example, when a visitor lectures at the Science Center on constipation in worms or some such subject a vast lecture hall is packed, but when a visiting scholar lectures on some aspect of the humanities there are almost never any undergraduates present, the audience...
...strongly object to the statement in Susan K. Brown's article of November 2, 1979, that "most colleges today are happy to divorce themselves from responsibility for their students' social lives." Ms. Brown does not seem to understand that treating college students like the adults they have legally become is quite different from abandoning responsibility for them. Most student affairs professionals are deeply concerned with supporting both growth and adult behavior among young people. Your reporter is not justified in suggesting that those colleges with less restrictive social policies are directed by administrators who do not care about their students...
Keenan said there is no limit to the number of lectures the committee will sponsor in a given year. "We have a whole list of people who seem to be outstanding, "but there may be a problem scheduling all of them, he said...
...excitements the star stirs up, of having some popular sympathy and prestige rub off as a result of a supporting star's popularity. In turn, the star, on top of perhaps serving personal philosophical interests, enjoys a chance to bask in the presence of power. That may seem little reward, yet it may be of considerable importance to a king-size theatrical...