Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress went the President of the U.S. to make his annual report on the State of the Union. His message was closely reasoned, bluntly presented with occasional flashes of eloquence, and positive in its nature. Dwight Eisenhower urged and set forth a program for fiscal responsibility, not of the sort that stifles growth but of the kind that can stand as a springboard for national progress...
...gentle, mildly charming production that Michael Benthall has directed for the Old Vic, the love poetry and the subtly melancholy atmosphere it distills form the pervading element, and the contrasting comic elements are very much played down. There is a distinct lack of any sort of vitality, but in Twelth Night vitality can be ruinous if not restrained, and its absence can be borne. The most basic need is for technique and taste in the production rather than energy and passion, and the former are the qualities that the Vic is best equipped to provide...
...This sort of inquiry would probably be squelched rather quickly at Harvard, and it is likely that investigators would be too polite to ask such questions here, preferring to draw their own conclusions. However, in the state colleges and small liberal arts colleges this form of investigation will increase if not stopped, and the University of California resolution has already been denounced as "subversive." It asks that faculty members refuse to reveal "belief, attitudes, activities, and associations of a student regarding religion, politics, and public affairs in general...
...There is much merit in trying to make some sort of argument in long essays," O'Neil, a former grader in History 164, explained. "In an exam the student is attempting to show the grader how much he knows; he can't just throw in raw facts...
Judging by the recent political activity, one could easily conclude that Harvard undergraduates are incapable of running a clean, graceful election or conducting any sort of dispute in an atmosphere of fair-minded reasonability...