Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little learning is a dangerous thing, a lot of it can also get a man into trouble. Specimen: handsome, polished Career Diplomat Charles Eustis Bohlen, 55, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines. Tabbed back in 1929 to become a Russian expert, "Chip" Bohlen got to be so fluent in Russian that he was picked to be Franklin Roosevelt's interpreter at the wartime meetings with Stalin. As a result, Bohlen had to carry around the never-quite-erasable mark of Yalta, and grievances about Yalta stirred strenuous Republican opposition on Capitol Hill in 1953 when President Eisenhower named Bohlen Ambassador...
...easy to be an atheist, a skeptic. My hope is that students will dare to be emotionally honest, instead of falling into an easy blase attitude...The most individualistic thing to do on the Harvard campus now would be to become a religious...
...less likely than believers to hold ethical opinions with which you can agree; 164 just as likely as believers to hold ethical opinions with which you can agree; 36 less likely than believers to do the morally right or kind thing; 3 more likely than believers to do the morally right or kind thing; 163 just as likely as believers to do the morally right kind of thing...
...dire, haunting voice, "Prepare to meet your God!" Her hat and dress are bedraggled, and she carries a worn paper shopping bag in one hand while the other is raised in ominous prophetic warning. The passers-by either smirk or ignore her or shake their heads: the last thing any Harvard or Radcliffe undergraduate expects to do on the public streets or elsewhere is to meet his God--at least in any literal sense, as he might meet his tutor, say, or President Pusey...
...paradox of belief in God at the University deepens when one examines the self-declared unbeliever. The most disturbing thing to be said about the Harvard atheist or agnostic is that he does not seem disturbed. He has rejected any positive belief in some of the cardinal propositions that have sustained and nourished his civilization for thousands of years, but on any issue, moral or political, other than the theistic one, he appears indistinguishable from his believing classmates...