Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer, in Cambridge, I thought I'd make jewelry for money. I discovered that it took, say, four hours to make a pair of earrings. But a retailer wouldn't be able to ask more than six dollars for the pair. Which meant I would get three. I gave up the business. The alternative was to make the same thing over and over. which would have been efficient but boring. Of course, Alexander Calder and Salvador Dali sell their jewelry as Art, and get considerably more than six dollars per piece...
...expected, since they were in the way of the stadium expansion. The football stadium presently seats 65,000 persons, but Frank Erwin, chairman of the Board of Regents, had led a campaign to build a new deck of 14,000 seats. A lot of people here thought one of the last things this university needed was 14,000 more football seats and an extension of that concrete monstrosity to twice its present height. But nobody had been told about the worst aspect of the expansion plan. Erwin proposed moving a street over and completely destroying the stretch of Waller Creek...
...motion to vote on whether to ask Pusey to delay a decision on the Project until the Faculty had discussed it failed to gain the four-fifths support it needed. But minutes later Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of the History of Science, asked Pusey if he thought he had heard the Faculty's opinion on the Project, and Pasey answered. "I assume I have, through the report of the Committee on Research Policy...
...William Kemmerer quarantine manager of Houston's Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the accident occurred, said yesterday afternoon that he thought the risk of contamination from the moon rocks was "very low." but that the quarantine procedures were "necessary and rational...
Roberts, however, spoke for the Administration in saying "If we thought that we would come out the same place we are now, we would be a little less eager...