Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarks significantly: "I have never been able to feel much optimism regarding the possibilities of higher education when it is built upon warped and weak foundations.... philosophizing should focus about education as the supreme human interest...
...series resumed after a 18-year break in 1900. Harvard won that year, 24 to 0, and in 1901, 18 to 0. Then the rivalry lapsed for 47 years, until 1948, when the two teams, ranked among the weak sisters of the Ivy League, engaged in one of the wildest games in Harvard history...
...feature of the four-term year which particularly appealled to the Exeter group was its flexibility. Special plans of study for the gifted or the weak student could be easily achieved within the present schedule, but that such a feature would automatically accompany the four-quarter program was an argument for its adoption...
...Acheson's criticism in a political context were not Republicans, but the liberal Democratic New York Post. Taking editorial issue with a byline story by its own Washington correspondent, William V. Shannon, who described the U.S.-Russian talks as nothing more than "another form of dithering by a weak, cowardly, reactionary Administration," the Post said: "We believe the issues [Shannon] raises are especially important because his position is undoubtedly shared by a number of Democratic leaders-most conspicuously, Dean Acheson-who seem so sorely tempted to 'open up' on the President and even to raise...
...their lips, Playwrights Lawrence and Lee give their play a fair amount of story interest and shock value, while Actor Melvyn Douglas, with a brilliant impersonation, wins sympathy for their hero. But wherever the pull of the play is not purely factual it seems flagrantly fictional, particularly in a weak last act. It brings no insight to any of the questions it raises. It gets beneath none of the skin it flays. Nor does The Gang's All Here always jibe with the facts. Harding (inside the party) was no such convention dark horse as he is made...