Word: statusful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...applicant for concentration who is dissatisfied with the final determination of his status may present his case before a meeting of the Standing Committee, which is scheduled for late Thursday. If necessary, there will be additional meetings of the Standing Committee for this purpose...
...five student stockholders would be composed of one Harvard undergraduate, two Harvard grad students, one M. I. T. undergraduate, and one M. I. T. grad student. They would serve for no set term, and would step down when they no longer held the same student status. The remaining students would fill the vacancies after consulting deans and student leaders...
Admen and packagers, of course, are not the only euphemizers. Almost any way of earning a salary above the level of ditchdigging is known as a profession rather than a job. Janitors for several years have been elevated by image-conscious unions to the status of "custodians"; nowadays, a teen-age rock guitarist with three chords to his credit can class himself with Horowitz as a "recording artist." Cadillac dealers refer to autos as "preowned" rather than "secondhand." Government researchers concerned with old people call them "senior citizens." Ads for bank credit cards and department stores refer to "convenient terms...
...that he go to church with his own kind?" Ford also attacked evangelical apathy (if not active opposition) toward social action in the U.S. "Christians have a stake in preserving historic truth," he acknowledged, "but since sin infects every man and institution, we need a holy discontent with the status quo. The Gospel calls for constant change. We cannot identify our Gospel with the past." On the other hand, warned Ford, the church should not be "the water boy of world revolution." Too many revolutions, he argued, "fail to grasp the heart of the problem, which is the problem...
Rushing to meet the deadline of Commencement, the Committee of 15 disciplined the 138 students arrested in University Hall using five new categories of punishment. One hundred and two have been placed "under warning" that "in the event of any subsequent misconduct, his disciplinary status will be more grave." This ill-defined admonition, supposedly a step more severe than the now useless "probation" may become a major source of controversy in the event of further disruptions. Twenty students received suspended "required to withdraw" penalties placing them on probation for one year with near certain dismissal for "subsequent misconduct...