Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merely utilitarian. It is necessary, but it does not enrich or ennoble a human life. Leisure, in contrast, consists of all those activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually and spiritually." Asked to define justice, he quoted Justinian-"Render to each his due"-and Mortimer J. Adler-"Treat equals equally and unequals unequally in proportion to their inequality." Occasionally, Adler is stumped by a reader's question...
...with which to begin the post-vacation term. Presumably the viewer has been softened-up with enough adult westerns and 21-inch-screen emotions to welcome Julie Harris, Burle Ives, Raymond Massey and even Jimmy Dean. Besides, it's all in technicolor and wide-screen, which is quite a treat at the Brattle...
Undoubtedly, the Tigers will treat the varsity with greater respect tonight than they did last Friday, when the Crimson threw a real scare into their feline hearts before falling by a close 61-56 score, the closest, in fact, any Ivy team had come to beating them until Dartmouth shel lacked them, 71 to 59, the following night at Hanover...
...battleground of the superpowers leads to emphasis of the spectacular over the useful--paving the streets of Kabul is better and more immediate propaganda, if poorer economics, than building a dam. Faced with a declaration of "war" in the economic field, the United States may either punish those who treat with the enemy or match the enemy's offers. But neither course is really practicable, for one smacks of "strings attached" aid and the other prevents any systematic long-range planning...
...readers, the new Sunday paper was an unexpected treat. Long accustomed to dull makeup and stodgy writing, they raised eyebrows at the generous use of color, white space, and sprightly features in the 174-page edition. "We haven't been able to featurize our papers much over the years," said Managing Editor Myron Depew. "Now maybe on the weekend we can entertain our readers, maybe charm them a little...