Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faith that in freedom and social justice Englishmen can build the New Jerusalem of William Blake's vision. It was Britain's hunger for a better-ordered world that swept a Labor government to power in 1945. In the wilderness since 1951, Labor has fought ceaselessly to shape the coherent contemporary philosophy that might earn its passage back to power. It did not succeed because its leaders always came up with dreary, dogmatic formulas that were remote from the everyday lives and problems of the people...
...compensate for horizontal motion. Fulltime crews patrol the bridge day and night, and when their measurements tell them the structure needs adjustment, they pump oil into the appropriate hydraulic cylinders to raise a section or shove it sideways. So far they have kept the roadway in fairly good shape. The streams of motorists who use the bridge have noticed only slight, occasional waviness. The waviness will probably continue until 1970, when the coal miners burrowing under Duisburg will have finished lowering their city...
Your editorial moves into this field by saying, as I understand your argument, that the College should think of freedom of sexual intercourse as being analogous to freedom of religion and freedom of speech and so, just as the College would not try to shape or control a student's religious or political beliefs, we should not attempt to shape or control sexual behavior, or attitudes toward sexual behavior. May I suggest a certain inadequacy in this analogy. Freedom of religion and politics are highly regarded and indeed protected by law in our society, for the good reason that across...
...discussion then reaches the question whether the College should have any concern to help shape its students' thinking about their behavior in an area restricted by the law and the moral codes of society. Your answer, I take it, would be, no; for you say that, "each person must define his own morality on the basis of his own experience," and the College would do best to get out of the way, allow certain freedoms, and have students learn to use freedom responsibility "by having it." On this matter I think you are in good part right, and partly wrong...
...Hooray for recognizing the stifling boredom of four unbroken walls!" exclaimed one girl in approving the complicated and angular room shape. Whereupon another girl wrote. "I'm beginning to feel like a mouse in a maze and I've only been here two minutes. What we need is space--not imaginative obstructions...