Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This summer's tours are of three main types: Study tours will travel in groups of between 25 and 70 and will visit European countries to study their social conditions and culture. Workcamps and workcamp tours will be in operation for those who wish to lessen the expenses of going abroad. Summer study seminars are also organized to permit students to study in schools on the continent...
...newsmen at U.N. last week what he thought of Pravda's editing, Vishinsky merely snapped: "The topic is exhausted." But a Russian engineer in Berlin cleared up the whole thing in a speech at the House of Soviet Culture. The moving of mountains is still only the wish of the Soviet people and not an accomplishment, he conceded. But, he added, "since wishes and reality lie close together in the Soviet Union, one can expect the execution of the project in a short while...
...venerable age. People seem to be able to continue for several decades after that-yet 75 does mark a distinct stage in one's life. I am sure that we all rejoice to see the right honorable gentleman in full health and activity, and wish him many more years...
...girl acted out an unpleasant experience of two years ago, when she had needlessly hurt her father's feelings with something she said. When she had finished, the doctor told her to go through it again only correcting her errors this time. "How many of us do not wish we could re-enact something in the past and do it right? Psychodrama gives that opportunity. You see, we started out this afternoon with caricature and now we warm up and have some very tragic psychological problems presented...
This is a limitation of freedom that is completely out of line with the Harvard approach to dealing with conflicts between the wishes of the individual and the University. Professors, for instance, are free to do what they wish without threat of University discipline except under the direst of circumstances. Thus a professor who was convicted of murder was not fired or otherwise disciplined by the University...