Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teacher, administrator in secondary school 45 52 University professor or administrator 56 62 Writer, artist, musician 44 36 Minister 19 24 Officer -- Armed Forces 13 15 Government, administrator or diplomat 35 41 Lawyer 75 109 Business Executive 212 253 Contractor 12 7 Own Store 34 34 Business for self, not store 70 45 Insurance, Real Estate 20 14 Salesman (employee) 60 37 Skilled technician 30 20 Foreman, factory supervisor 18 13 Clerical Office worker 65 53 Laborer, factory hand 57 40 Public worker 10 10 Farmer 11 19 Housekeeper, Housewife 19 14 Unemployed 8 1 Retired 7 21 Miscellaneous...
...logic was well taken that described the drift of a student representative from the stage of realizing his fellows' indifference toward his service to that of irresponsible, self-centered action. Yet I wonder whether this reasoning was not carried too far and applied too broadly. To say that the responsible representative is a rare bird takes too little account, I think, of several important factors: First, there is no single group of "representatives;" a student who leads in one activity follows in most of the rest, and so never loses the sense of membership in the community. Secondly, and more...
...your editorial "Sports on the Cuff," you mentioned that the Harvard Athletic Association had dropped lacrosse as a Varsity sport and that the object of this move was to make athletics, in general, self-supporting through endowment earnings...
Praise be to the moviemakers, they do not indulge in any sentimental petting of the underdog. The social education of Joe Lampton is a painful, truthful exposition of human character. Before half an hour has gone by, it is apparent that Joe is an aggressive, self-seeking, foulmouthed, dirty-minded, ill-educated, mean-spirited little brute with more feeling in his wallet than in his heart. Yet it is also apparent, after the camera makes a visit to Joe's home town, that he has good reasons for being what he is; Dufton is a bombed-out, soot-seared...
...master, but on his own terms. To own a Wright house, young couples went into hock for years, docilely took dictation from the master on how they were to live. In such a favorable climate, Wright was often carried away by the sheer momentum of his own self-confidence. His T-square and triangle elaborated spaces on the drafting table that often owed more to forceful geometry than practicality; he designed hexagonal bedrooms, built shoulder-pinching corridors. For the late Solomon R. Guggenheim he designed a museum in the form of a bowl, with ramps for galleries, which is only...