Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spoke for "thousands of graduates throughout the nation" in asking their elders "to place confidence in us." The response came minutes later on the same platform, when U.S. Citizen No. 1 praised the valedictory as the best he had ever heard, went on to match its spirit with an account of "more crusades that need to be waged." "My friends." said Dwight Eisenhower, "there are such tremendous pioneering tasks to undertake today that I believe it is almost safe to say that any one of your elders here today, if he could have one wish, would be joining this class...
...appeal came down to Miami News staffers from Editor Bill Baggs: ''Please do not hide any more suits on the expense account." Baggs' quip was characteristic of the front-office reaction of the nation's newspapers to the recession: concerned, but far from desperate...
...following eleven pages, the Crimson presents a series of viewpoints on this system. It does not pretend to be a comprehensive account of the educational problem as it stands. It is, rather, an attempt to achieve some sort of understanding through a number of, hopefully, representative cases. Contrasts between these cases and an examination of several special problems involved will perhaps have more effect than a lengthy accumulation of generalization about "Education...
Customs law covering original works of art has been unchanged since 1930. uses some definitions that date back to 1916, fails to take account of the revolution that has taken place in half a century of modern art. The travails that this situation causes an institution such as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is enough to make Picasso turn primitive. The M.M.A. owns one Picasso collage (paste-up) valued at approximately $15,000, but by customs definition, it is not art at all. In the involved process of gathering works by famed French Abstractionist Jean...
...reason for this disparity, says Wernick, is the vast increase in so-called "nonproduction" workers, which corporations often fail to take into account. Between 1947 and 1957, nonproduction workers increased by 1,400,000, or 55%, v. only a 125,000, or 1%, increase in production-line workers. Salary payments jumped even faster (see chart...