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Word: feeling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time we suburbanites were shaken from our complacent parlor liberalism to practice what we preach. I'm sorry that some feel they have to hide their prejudice behind the "declining property value" argument. As a mother of small children in an adjacent child-oriented suburban community, I can only say, "we just can't afford not to be democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...insisting they are nonCommunist, are privately proud of how well Red China stood off the white man's armies in Korea. Though appalled by reports of conditions in Red China, they can be heard to say, in the words of a leading Singapore merchant: "For once, Overseas Chinese feel we have a strong mother country to whom we can turn if everything else fails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: The Sojourners | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...this a suitable way to approach the problem of honorary degrees? Beauty, after all, "is a vain and doubtful good," and in the matter of beauty contests we would need to feel no shame at turning away from our own time and burrowing into the past. But honorary degrees, Sirs, honorary degrees! Surely Harvard cannot shirk its duty to future historians, its duty to choose from among the many those few worthy of its recognition and their attention. Surely it would be unseemly for a great university to bury its head in the sands of the past and neglect history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 12/18/1959 | See Source »

Although he did not name a Presidential favorite, David Riesman '34, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, warned against the contemporary political complacency. "I feel along with many people that the current American assumption that there can be 'politics as usual' in the year of the atom bomb does not make too much sense. We are perhaps too sure that 1960 will come along without a contaminated atmosphere or even a worse explosion and that we can play guessing games without serious risk to life on this planet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Galbraith Picks Kennedy In Recent 'Esquire' Poll | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

...course was approved despite some fears that, although presently acceptable to the Committee, it might revert to departmental form as some Committee members feel Social Sciences 1 has done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wald Course Approved By Gen Ed Committee | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

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