Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arms are now difficult to move because they are eight times heavier than normal. Consciousness clouds, and for a moment he will wait in heavy, silent oppression. Weightless World. Then his body will become suddenly light, as the rocket burns out at last, and he commences the fall toward the center of the earth that will continue for 4^ hours. He will have dropped, as if over a precipice, into a still and weightless world. He will feel no motion. He will not rock and sway. He will only fall. He will be gravity-free. If he moves an extremity...
Richard Nixon's declaration, penned as he drafted a speech for delivery this week to the American Academy of Political and Social Science, was a momentous one: in its simplest terms it meant that the U.S. was prepared to use the full weight of its prestige toward establishing the rule of law among nations to achieve world peace...
...absorption in something not at all academic, becomes, to a certain extent, alienated from an academic community. In colleges where success is the ideal for the majority of the student body, the student-leader is placed in a plane above the majority, which feel a degree of awe toward him; at Harvard, whre intellecual proficiency is the ideal, the minority student-leaders are regarded as perhaps a step below that of the majority of the student body; in any case, they are regarded as a group apart, a group with alien purposes and standards...
...matter how hard he may be working to represent his fellows, no one really considers him his representative. The feeling that no one appreciates what he is doing (and this applies as well to the club officer's regard of his rank-and-file) leads to a martyred bitterness toward those whom he is supposed to represent. The realization that his fellows are asking "Who cares?" eventually leads him to mutter, "The hell with them," and the chasm between the academic reality and the dream of the leader increases considerably...
...remain faithful to the wishes of those who elect them, to place their leader selves in subordination to their student selves, thus to immerse themselves more thoroughly in the purposes and moral standards of an academic community. It includes further a commitment on the part of the Faculty toward the scholastic and moral education of the individual undergraduate, not by paternalistically limiting his independence, but simply by taking a greater interest...