Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safety record has been excellent: a professional company, East Coast Aviation, regularly services the plane; no one is allowed to take off unless weather conditions are judged safe, usually "C.A.V.U." (ceiling and visibility unlimited); and a member may solo only after both his instructor and the club officers are sure of his ability to cope with whatever situations might arise...
...entire concept of guidance is sure to grate on any Harvard student, who traditionally prizes his independence, and who scoffs at other Ivy Leaguers and more distant colleagues who are still spoon-fed by a bevy of counselors, advisors, and deans. At Harvard, freedom is an almost sacred word, with individualism only slightly less exalted. But freedom implies responsibility, which is not so often thought of. During the college years, new freedoms appear at a bewildering rate, and inevitably some cannot be immediately coped with. There is freedom of time and of action in great quantities. The student usually makes...
...been assumed that the required loyalty oaths and affidavits are in principle bad. And I should not want to hold the contrary. But I am not sure that we can say that they are bad because they impose restraints on the free exercise of the mind; they may in fact not impose such restraints, and they may well not even be appropriate devices for the imposition of such restraints on any occasion. Rather, what is bad is the existence of a belief among common men that intellectuals cannot be trusted as citizens. The oaths and affidavits serve, it seems...
...argued Dean Miller, must take some of the blame. Theological education has become "a vulgarized form of a trade school," failing to develop the young clergyman's intellect or make him sensitive to the heights and depths of human experience. Today's minister, warned Miller, "must be sure his mind is sharpened to its utmost, lest he blunder about the world with a rough and stupid carelessness, hoping that he might hit upon the will of God merely because of his good intentions...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Small-town tattletales embarrass the heroine's mother into insisting that Rachel's Summer be spent at home. But the vacation is ruined when Rachel discovers that Momma isn't so sure of her innocence. From a story by Charles (Lost Weekend) Jackson. With Martha Scott and Patty McCormack...