Word: conservationism
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Six seniors were sitting around an Eliot House dining hall table last week. Conservation was listless. After one particularly lengthy pause, one senior piped, "Did you read about the new parietals?" Two others muttered, "Yeah." The silence resumed.
"A state without the means of some change," Edmund Burke warned, "is without the means of its own conservation." It is a lesson that Charles de Gaulle largely ignored. Public men today cannot learn it too well; for if one thing is certain, it is that the demands for new...
I remember one old man who spoke after a sober and moving exposition of the terrible damage to maternal health caused by forcing a partially crippled woman to bear a full term pregnancy. The old man, who purported to be the leader of a "moral conservation society," asserted that a...
"Undoubtedly," said Sullivan, "the jurors were unduly impressed by the mystique of the mathematical demonstration but were unable to assess its relevancy or value." Neither could the defense attorney have been expected to know of the sophisticated rebuttal available to them. Janet Collins is already out of jail, has broken...
Sir: TIME'S "Election Extra" in 1964 featured a smiling, victorious Lyndon Baines Johnson in his hour of triumph after amassing the greatest popular vote in U.S. history; that, in awesome contrast to the agonized figure we recently viewed on TV. If ever we need to illustrate an example...