Word: apts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although they are badly outnumbered, defenders of the single-sex campus maintain that girls are more apt to display their intellectual talents when they are not also vying for dates in the classroom, that either sex concentrates more intently on classwork when they are separated, that the separate campus is more relaxed and casual in dress. Some also contend that a coed curriculum tends to overemphasize masculine vocational interests. After competing with men in a coed college, claims President Paul Weaver of Ohio's all-girl Lake Erie College, a girl is likely to become "dissatisfied in the role...
...interesting assessment of the presidential hopefuls. I thought the description of Rockefeller especially apt. It would be a shame if a man of his proved ability and statesmanship were overlooked on the basis of an event in his personal life, the details of which the public is (rightfully) ignorant about...
...classic as well as modern art, but it is the new and bizarre forms that pose special problems for the critic and the photographer-as we found again in working on the story about the luminists. They are very serious about their seemingly playful work, and their background is apt to be broader-or at any rate more technical-than that of the traditional artist. Their experience includes such far-away fields as nuclear physics, optics and electronics. "They are of the technical age," says Piri Halasz, who wrote the story, "but they remain artists primarily." Researcher Leah Gordon found...
There seems to be a De Tocqueville quote to fit almost every action in contemporary America. But it was particularly apt to record last week that he wrote, in 1835, that "the great privilege of the Americans does not consist in being more enlightened than other nations, but in being able to repair the faults they may commit...
...Redemption," a satire on, of all things, Calvinism-a highly successful satire which not so long ago would have gotten him dunked in every pond in Massachusetts. The Puritan game delights in the fact that wherever the player moves, he can't help but fall into sin, McClelland's apt use of the unexpected turns a good idea into a brilliantly funny piece...