Word: contention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season of incomparable warmth, free of the violent hailstorms that slash the vines and bruise the grapes. At the same time there has been enough moisture in the ground to keep the vines fresh. "The leaves are still green as we pick," says one grower. "This means a glycerine content that will give the vintage an exceptional body." Another factor is that the four substandard harvests before this year's harvest had the effect of resting the vines. This summer they surged forward "to make up for lost time...
...learn during the summer fail to solve the real problem: until the summer session is compulsory, only a minority of students will attend, and a third of the year will still be wasted. A few students who want extra learning will not make up for the majority who are content to stay with the old schedule. Only a radical approach like the four-quarter program seems likely to break through the inertia and provide the efficiency, economy, and opportunity which the more conventional proposals seek to duplicate...
...might question initially whether a college in which religion has been relegated strictly to the individual can turn around and claim for itself the field of moral philosophy--or whether it should content itself with the area of intellectual inquiry. This objection cannot be answered absolutely, unless a college education be defined broadly enough to include things other than merely academic matters. As Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity has observed, "The distinction between right and wrong is surely no less important than that between true and false." Professor Demos also points out that...
...Please), he was born, raised and schooled in The Bronx (Fordham, cum laude, 1912), all told lived there for the better part of half a century. While few New Yorkers ever notice nature, Kieran's thesis always has been: "Let men build and pave to their hearts' content, there will always be many kinds and untold numbers of wild things in the great city...
Soviet students, Azrael finds, are generally content. "Tourists who meet Russian youths on the street tend to get an exaggerated impression of discontent among the university students." He was struck by the large extent of "satisfaction, defined in a great variety of ways, among the Soviet student body...