Word: uncertainity
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This squeamishness is a healthy thing. It's the tribute prosperity pays to democracy. In America we are committed to political equality and resigned, at least, to financial inequality, but uncertain and unhappy about the vast middle ground of social relations. What we want, or should want, is for financial inequality to pollute social equality as little as possible. Money should buy things, but not people. This is where the "servant problem" arises. There is no solution, but here are a few suggestions...
Some students turned Harvard down because of misconceptions, Evans said. One student thought a ROTC scholarship could not be used at the college, while another was uncertain as to whether the ROTC scholarship would remain valid. One student feared being restricted to two extracurricular activities...
Kennedy spends his life treading the uncertain margins that lie between second-generation immigrant and Harvard student, between Catholic and humanist, between Perspective and Lampoon, between himself and his "second conscience," always "keeping tabs...
More than 100,000 dead. More than four million refugees. As students of draft age, we recognize the risks of war. We are wary of entering a confilct with an uncertain end. But we also recognize that there are sometimes compelling reasons for military interventions...
...Pearl Harbor was sort of a watershed in our experience, because things changed in our junior year. People accelerated out of our class, and people married boyfriends who were going overseas," Helman says. "It was an uncertain time...