Word: alterity
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...them is 48-year-old Provost Albert C. Jacobs, onetime Oxford lecturer in jurisprudence, wartime naval reserve captain and professor of law at Columbia. Professor Jacobs, provost since 1947, will be Ike's "principal assistant," act as his "alter ego and successor during the president's necessary absences from the university or in the event of an emergency." The other deputies...
Dean Kerby-Miller explained that the administration's decision does not materially alter previous policy. The Board has, in individual cases during the past two years, granted "warning without loss of privilege" to juniors and seniors whose records became unsatisfactory in any one term...
...dark-walled committee room, a Conservative member, often a stern critic of Lange's Laborite policies, huffed: "Couldn't be better; don't alter one word." A few words were altered. The reply was delivered at the Soviet embassy 71 hours after the protest had been received...
...will surely arouse in the whole scientific community, and in men of learning everywhere, so profound a revulsion that I cannot pass it in silence. That has to do with the evaluation of Einstein, and of his place in science, which no time, no age, and no frivolity can alter, and of the debt that we owe, and that all who follow us will owe, to him. It would seem that the issue goes beyond that of good taste, that it touches on an appreciation of the timeless nature of truth, without which the life of the mind can have...
Unfortunately, however, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, who wrote, produced, and directed the film, have chosen to alter the usual happy reconciliation of the two lovers to parallel the ballet-plot. The result is a wrenching, brutal, and totally unnecessary tragic ending to a story that contains no other tragic elements...