Word: unhappiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today 65% do. Stout upped faculty salaries 68%, started a college of education, a junior college in Las Vegas, a graduate school, a school of nursing and a college of business administration. But in spite of all these accomplishments, the university is still living through some of the unhappiest years of its life...
Twenty-two Dunster Street certainly qualifies as one of the unhappiest places around the Square these days. On the second floor of the building sit the University police, and trudging up the stairs every minute or so comes a persecuted-looking undergraduate clutching a little orange card. The students' attitudes vary from despair to defiance; the attitude of Captain Toohy and his staff is always one of helpless sympathy. It just seems that there are more cars at the College this year than there are legal places to park them...
...further complicated when, weeks ago, "detail men" for the drug companies called on doctors and asked how much vaccine they wanted. How much they actually got depended less on how far ahead the company was with its production program than on how the salesmen liked individual doctors. Now the unhappiest doctors are those few with a little vaccine. Pressure from parents on these doctors is heavy...
Aside from the scientific nature of these stories--which incidentally contain little pseudo-scientific jargon--there is another ingredient which seems to be exclusive to ASF. The scientists who write for it must be a very gloomy lot, for they groan continually about current life, and predict the unhappiest of futures. In Blood's A Rover (the May issue's lead yarn), for instance, the captain of a Process Corps takes us by the hand and shows how awful the Earth's historical development has been, how ridiculously evangelistic we Earthlings really are, and what is in store...
...letter to his Little Apostles: "The church sent me to you, I came. I loved you as my children. Now the church takes me away from you. I am no longer father to you. I am a priest in search of a diocese, and I am one of the unhappiest men on the face of the earth." Last week the first of the Salesian fathers arrived in Nomadelphia. Don Zeno packed his accordion and went off to rest and wait for a new assignment...