Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Erwin Bodky's performance displayed an approach of absolute seriousness and purity toward the music. The attraction of instrumental color was avoided by using a bare string orchestra. The tempi were uniformly slow so as to attain the highest awareness of the formal complexity within each of the fourteen fugues performed. Yet at the same time, the playing, especially through its attention to tonal color and phrasing, attained such a level of devotion and warmth that the audience could not help but be moved to a closer contact with the music by the example of the performers...
...Director of the Selective Service System has issued a special bulletin to all local and appeals draft boards directing them to give all graduate students two calendar years to attain master's degrees and as long as five years to obtain a doctoral degree...
...comparison," Mitchell stated, "previous policies tended to permit more students to enter graduate school, but fewer to attain their higher degrees...
Under the earlier draft policy, as established by an Executive Order in March of 1951, college seniors had only to graduate in the upper half of their class or attain a score of 75 on the deferment test to be eligible for graduate school deferment...
Anybody, including an atomic scientist, has a right to press upon the Government his opinion of how to attain this or any other goal. From such pressures a healthy government will know how to derive nourishment for clear, strong, decisive policymaking. The struggles related in The Hydrogen Bomb took place in a Government (and in a nation) that was confused about its own strategic situation and unclear about its aims. A determined pressure group can play havoc in such a situation. To relate the story of how one such pressure group almost did, is not to set up a conflict...