Word: worde
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...most frustrating (and damning) characteristic of Schwartz's article is that he himself clearly believes every word of it. He really thinks that "it is ironic that one on who has departed from the scene [i.e., a resigned Volunteer] should presume title to the very themes of ... [the Peace Corps] endeavor," and that the "role of those Americans [who are overseas] has changed--not to a point of perfection, certainly, but to a point where perfection is a less impossible goal." This is exactly the attitude Elaine and I found in the Chilean Peace Corps Administration: an incredibly naive self...
...word Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, used in defending the Dow resolution (which he proposed) was "prudence." The Council was not making any substantive decisions, he said, but was merely asking the Administration to be prudent and postpone the Dow visit. The same prudence led the Council to ask that Fouts be seated--instead of asking that all Dow probations be lifted. And had Peretz's motion been called to a vote and accepted, it would have been prudence that asked for the ban on military recruitment because of the Hershey directive...
...violent criticism that followed his October letter to local boards directing them to induct war and draft protestors. Hell broke loose all around him, with newspapers, educators, and civil libertarians across the country demanding his retirement. His directive was also strongly attacked on the Senate floor, but not one word was said there against him personally. Senior and junior congressmen alike are deferent to him in committee hearings...
...prose style of Harvard's course catalogue can make a literate student pretty drowsy. Most programs are chosen by word of mouth, and among those students who plow regularly through their catalogues, there is a tendency to dismiss whole areas of human endeavor, like Soil Mechanics and Urdu, which appear to the untrained eye irrelevant. Yet a careful reading of the catalogue brings scholastic joy to a small, notoriously uncommunicative group of undergraduates who have effected a virtual monopoly over the University's more exotic, which is to say more enjoyable, selections. Opposing monopoly, we bring this list forthwith...
Bedazzled has not been a popular film thus far in its Boston run. Apparently, word about Miss Welch's brief appearance has gotten around to her fans, and little has been circulated about the film's many real merits. It's a bit daring in a few scenes. But you don't have to see it for that; it may be the funniest thing in town anyway...