Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enthusiasm surprises some, considering that Harvard's is not the first program of non--concentration requirements, and not by a long shot the most radically new educational experiment of this age. But whatever Harvard has to say about the place of a liberal arts education in the world today, other educators are going to listen because Harvard, after all, is Harvard...
What is to become of these outcasts? Already, about half the country's 110 million population is 19 years of age or younger. Some experts predict that within 20 years or so, Brazil will be burdened with millions of adults so undernourished, unskilled and uneducated that they will be impervious to any kind of civilizing process. Experts report that the signs of this prophecy are already unmistakable. With nothing to look forward to, the children indulge in delusions of a glorious future. Says a psychologist: "We have illiterate seven-year-olds who say they are going to be doctors...
...Orlick route. That's extreme. You want to continue to challenge kids. Sure you want to cooperate and have fun, but you never want to not keep score." With proper supervision, he says, competitive games are not damaging to children above the age of 7 or 8. Walter Cooper, head of the health and physical education school at the University of Southern Mississippi, has attended a New Games Foundation workshop and liked its emphasis on involving people of all ages in physical activity. "But," he adds, "the new games are only a leisure pastime and have no relationship...
...guest conductor in 1974," says Mehta. "That was when I went on the stage and apologized." He is now very glad to be in New York. "New York is the center of the musical world, and I felt that I should move there now rather than at age 55 or so," he says...
Giulini and Mehta illustrate strikingly the contrasts in modern conductors: the older, painstakingly schooled musicians who served a long apprenticeship before emerging into public view at about the age of 40; and the young jet-age, learn-as-you-go conductors who have more commitments than time. The same contrast holds true among their recently appointed colleagues. The new faces...