Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture a scientist as a man different from all other people. As a child [he wore] glasses, was skinny and tall, was never any sort of an athlete, had no school spirit, few friends, and wasn't looked at by girls. When the scientist grows up he gets married, usually at the age of about 30. He has no time for his wife as he is constantly engaged in inventing a supernatural device...
...late in the afternoon. Explained a wan Indonesian aide: "It was a very excellent party, but now I do not feel so well." Geisha Isozaki tripped merrily off to a fashionable shop on the Ginza and bought Sukarno a 24-karat gold ear-cleaner inscribed with his name-the sort of gift that, in Japan, is made only to intimates...
...then in an attenuated degree. But one can clearly see why a social club would only be sensible in excluding such an individual, whatever the wisdom might be of admitting him to the university, and most of the officers on Prospect Street would agree that this precisely describes the sort of man who must at all costs be kept out. It is also a fairly accurate portrait of Einstein...
...rejoices in human diversity and creative individuality and actively seeks it out. Social insulation, a striving for comfortable homogeneous groups, the frank institutionalization of arbitrary and unreflective prejudices--these do not contribute to that aim. Even if the racial criterion were eliminated, the general principle of an illfounded sort of discrimination would remain as an axiom of Princeton's entire social structure...
...Bicker is usually defended. In letting her students, after months of reading Plato and Kant, Milton and Thoreau, pass complacently through the two weeks of Bicker, Princeton may well be defeating her own highest efforts at cultivating an operative system of values, and inducing in her sons the refined sort of ethical blindness which tactfully refrains from seriously applying standards of what is right in adjusting to the realities of what merely...