Word: shirked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem of honorary degrees? Beauty, after all, "is a vain and doubtful good," and in the matter of beauty contests we would need to feel no shame at turning away from our own time and burrowing into the past. But honorary degrees, Sirs, honorary degrees! Surely Harvard cannot shirk its duty to future historians, its duty to choose from among the many those few worthy of its recognition and their attention. Surely it would be unseemly for a great university to bury its head in the sands of the past and neglect history's need for its wise and discriminating...
Other officers, announced during the half of the Yale game to take office immediately, are: Assistant Managers, W. Bruce Shirk '62, of Kirkland House and Kansas City, Mo., Geoffrey B.S. Cavanagh '62, of Dunster House and Gloucester, Joseph F. McLean '62, of Dudley House and Dorchester, and John M. Flader '62, of Leverett House and Kohler...
...picnic takes place on the go-acre estate of one "Pop" Larkin (Paul Douglas), a beer-bellied, golden-hearted. Godsend-payday paragon of the old-fashioned vices: civic irresponsibility and the right to shirk. Inevitably, the Internal Revenue Service (Tony Randall) tries to catch up with him. "I'd like to look at your books," says tight-lipped Tony, the perfect black-shoe bureaucrat. Douglas looks puzzled. "I don't do much reading," he replies. But Tony forges ahead, deeper and deeper into a slough of Southern hospitality...
...attentively, but above all the Great Bear, whose progeny has lately added a bleep to the music of the spheres." (". . . caeli signa attentissime observat, ante omnia ursam maiorem, quae caelestium choro progeniem blantem nuper immiscuit.") Less vividly, Gaitskell (Mod. Greats, 1927) was hailed as a debater who "does not shirk the task of leadership when the free world is at stake...
This can best be seen in the amount of time the professor spends on administrative details--at least a full afternoon aweek. Yet few professors if any shirk these duties as they firmly believe that for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences toremain independent, the faculty must do its own administrative work...