Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paltry a goal as the removal of "a little ignorance" would no longer do. Colleges had to justify themselves with "newer" ideas and "newer" research. Since the professors had all the answers, let them fix up society. So began the government contracts and the ties with business--in short, the philosophy of "activism," Barzun writes, which persists on campus today...
Much arch commentary, however, edges toward Oscar Wilde: "He even felt glad that he had suffered a little. One must try everything once." Provocative (especially to an age notably short of elegant abuse), nearly always interesting as a tour de force, The Girls lacks narrative substance, a problem of form inevitable, perhaps, in books put together mainly from letters, excerpts from notebooks, oddments of thought and author's asides. The chief irony of The Girls, though, is that Costals, who keeps asserting that creative man must free himself from the constricting influence of women, ends by falling victim...
...grades perpetuate the status quo in social inquiry by encouraging students to research subjects which are most likely to assure "a short-term payoff...
Moriarty said that despite the resolution, Harvard would fall $130,000 short of matching the Navy Moriarty pointed out that the Navy, unlike the financial aid office, does not award scholarships solely on need and has paid $180,000 this year to NROTC students whereas the financial aid office, at SFAC hearings last October estimated the need of NROTC students...
...glory was short-lived, however, as they bowed to a punchless M.I.T. squad at M.I.T. in early January. Shortly thereafter, Princeton's Tigers romped over Williams by a score of 8-1 at Princeton...