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Word: willingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE high spot of any journalist's week is dealing with the biggest piece of news. After that, probably the greatest satisfaction is writing about unusual people who find themselves involved in some extraordinary situation-or see to it that they are so involved. As this week's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 14, 1969 | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

Unnerving Self-Confidence. Harvard is less and less a place where the undergraduate explores generally, shunning commitment, reading broadly, flicking out, drinking beer and pondering the mysteries of the universe on long moonlit strolls along the Charles. Undergraduates are studying harder than ever; yet it is their estrangement from time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Can Hip Harvard Hold That Line? | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

But whether the chances are good or bad, Roger Brown has distinctly failed to come up with a reason for dropping the courses from his department's rolls. Somehow, Brown thinks the courses "belong better" under Gen Ed--he seems willing to risk killing a highly successful course just to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keep 148-9 | 3/13/1969 | See Source »

It has become commonplace to note that the Senate could not afford to lose a man like Gruening. In reality, it probably won't make that much difference. The Senate long ago learned to ignore his simple, earnest pleas. His condemnation of the war was too unreasonable: he denounced not...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: Ernest H. Gruening | 3/11/1969 | See Source »

Throughout it all, Gruening has remained a liberal. His analysis of the causes of the Vietnam war goes no deeper than the personality of President Johnson: he sees the war and all the other disasters of American foreign policy as errors that could have been avoided by wiser leaders. His...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: Ernest H. Gruening | 3/11/1969 | See Source »

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