Word: adopting
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Maritally, U.S. Society abandoned the "double standard" only to adopt the quadruple and sextuple standards. Gentleman Editor Frank (Vanity Fair) Crowninshield epigrammatized the situation: "Married men make very poor husbands." By their second or third generations, most U.S. moneyed clans are marked for either 1) distinction, 2) extinction. Those that survive with distinction, e.g., Lowells, Rockefellers. Guggenheims, treat their money as a public trust and adopt the ethic of responsibility laid down by an early Du Pont: "No privilege exists that is not inseparably bound to a duty." Other socialite families go the way so graphically described by the Philadelphia...
Another problem that the survey suggests should be a warning to the College: the receptivity of its students, and the frightening extent to which they are eager to submit their minds to the influence of a faculty member. It is sobering to think how many students will adopt a role, any role as long as it gives them a sense of direction...
...result, the rhetoric of debate often appeared hazy, mutual misunderstanding often causing sympathizers with both sides--but rarely Tocsin walkers--to adopt extreme positions...
...problem of diverting our energies to the wretched of the world, however, is one for political leadership more than scientific know-how. We cannot adopt the means used by, say, the Soviet government to coerce its people into sacrificing for their children's world without accepting more of its premises than we are prepared to accept. Therefore our problem is to persuade ourselves that the sacrifice is worth it. That is a task for politicians. It was an ex-haberdasher from Missouri, and not a scientist, who was President when the Marshall Plan went into effect. And even the "closed...
...Harvard University Debate Council emerged with a decisive victory in the Annual Tufts Invitational Debate Tournament Saturday. The Cambridge contingent argued the affirmative side of this year's topic, "Resolved: That the United States should adopt a program of compusory health insurance for all citizens...