Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funds that go to universities this way. Debates on education bills are usually lengthy and appropriations extend over three or four years. The Office of Education administers programs under these general education bills. In 1968, the agency was authorized to distribute $4714 million under the extended 1963 Facilities Act, $397 million under NDEA, and $427 million under the 1965 Higher Education Act extended...
...permanent government is interested in buying a product from universities--research. It is not "aiding" higher education; the Congress "aids" it through NDEA and the Higher Education Act. The permanent government is relatively insulated from external political pressure; Congress is not insulated at all. In an examination of instances of direct federal control over higher education through the weight of funding (the NDEA oath, for example) we find that it has been Congress, not he permanent government, that has been involved--even though the Congressional share of total support is very small. The permanent government has consistently opposed Congress...
...swollen and red. "Someone is gonna kill me, and it's gonna be me." The dead pulse of the blues rolled in and out of the room, but Billy boy was already coming back from six hours of nothing into the world where people fight, choose up sides, care, act inexplicably. When you love the world you hate, and must punish yourself for it, there's always the smack train, gets you there in no time, no space, nothing...
...pealing to someone who has taken dexedrine than the reading of a book. The total fibre of the dexedrine-doped person's being is riveted to the ideas flowing to him out of the book. Not to the action of looking at the printed words, but to the act of understanding the expression of the author's mind...
...illusion after illusion is stripped away during the play's second act, Crowley manages to destroy virtually all popular conceptions of the homosexual personality and existence. If we cannot identify with the play's world of boundless sorrow and lacerating wit, we cannot turn our backs either. As one character say to Alan, "It's like watching an accident on the highway. You can't look at it and you can't look away...