Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went on to say that the campaign is especially interesting from his point of view because it pits a "popular hero" against a "semi-unknown political highbrow...
Unlike Princeton which is the heart of a small town, unlike Harvard which lies in the middle of a big city yet manages to preserve a definite detachment from it, certainly unlike Cornell and Dartmouth which are tucked away in the semi-wilderness, Columbia can never escape its environment. The world is too much with...
Mountain Monastery. Two years ago a group of Basque pastors began to publish a semi-clandestine mimeographed magazine called Egiz (Basque for "truth"), in which nationalistic as well as moral problems were openly discussed. It was highly successful. Each laboriously circulated issue found its way to some 50,000 readers. When the three Spanish bishops told the priests to stop publication, they ignored the order. The bishops then decreed that any priest connected with Egiz would be suspended. Reluctantly, some weeks ago, the priests yielded...
Unfortunately, the commune to which Arthur was assigned had no place for such a bright (and unmuscular) young man. Arthur was soon selling lemonade on the streets of Haifa-and selling so little that he turned in his equipment after a few days. Then followed a year of semi-starvation, which Arthur softened by composing fairy stories in Hebrew...
Various University satrapies, once semi-autonomous, have been gathered under his wing with the adoption of the Senior Tutor plan, such as the testing department, the Placement Office and of course the Houses, and though they still operate more or less independently, Dean Leighton is responsible for their working in harmony. Moreover, the Dean must see to it that the Houses and the Departments are not forever at each others' throats over the matter of Tutorial. "Essentially, he says, "my job is seeing that the sytem works...