Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just over the horizon, along with a gross national product that seems likely to top a trillion dollars by the early 1970s, is an array of new machines, teaching methods, foods and other tools that will help man cope with such compelling problems. The next 50 years promise to provide even further evidence that the capitalist system is the most productive in human history...
...concert version of Norma with the American Opera Society as if she had never heard any of this. Her attitude: "What is there to be afraid of?" She soon found out. When the lights went up for the intermission, the audience discovered in its midst not only a daunting array of singers from the past but also the diva of divas, Callas, enthroned in a corner box. Immediately the entire house turned in claque-like obeisance to Callas; galvanized by her magnetic presence, they applauded and cheered as she blew kisses and tossed them the roses that lined the tier...
...possibility that a small number of students will be singled out for some sort of punishment. That course of action is foolish and illogical. It is also unjust. The random selection of scapegoats would foster rancor instead of reflection, and would create martyrs where there is now simply an array of advocates...
...enter Bostons ghetto schools with the same expectations and the same motivations as children all over America. They come, as other children do, with faces bright, with hopes held high, with energy, with dreams, with expectation. For six years, eight years, ten years, 12 years, they face a grim array of hostile teachers. To the reaching hands of the children are given dry and thankless texts, books long outdated, unloved, unlovely, books teachers can respect no more than can their pupils, books from which few children learn and from which no child should...
...might have seemed to any dial-twirling fan who tried to keep up with the dizzying array of TV sports shows last week. The enthusiasm is understandable, for sport is the most consistently exciting spectacle on TV. The cameras follow the bouncing ball with such telescopic expertise that they have turned the living room into a locker room and Daddy into a sports nut. This season the three networks will telecast 796 hours of sports-more than twice as much as ten years...