Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Often, students simply do not know much about the careers they choose or discuss. Their prolonged education may give them a distorted view of post-campus life; unrealistic ideas tend to flourish in isolation from society. To help overcome this, an attempt is being made to bring the outside world into the world of studies, to expose a student to a career without harnessing him to it. Already 136 colleges and universities have instituted work-studies programs that provide undergraduates with a taste of a career ahead of time...
...child's behavior rather than concentrate on its surface expression. With a little common sense, he insists, children of any age can be intelligently decoded. When they refuse to cooperate with a mother getting ready for the evening, she should be alert for more than ordinary balkiness and attempt to sympathize with whatever is bothering them. One kindly mother in that situation, Ginott reports, calmed her kids by saying: "I bet you all wish you could come to the theater with Daddy and me" -even though the line might seem capable of provoking some teen-agers into paroxysms...
...leaked reports of ballooning expenses. Rather grudgingly, the Air Force and other sources revealed that the procurement bill had climbed from an anticipated $3.5 billion for 115 of the planes to $4.4 billion for 120 of them. Congressional critics charge that the "overrun" resulted mostly from Lockheed's attempt to win the contract by making an unrealistically...
...Butler's dancers performed the ballet from Meyerbeer's 1831 opera Robert le Diable, a spooky medieval tale that pits a young knight against the seductive forces of the Devil; about the best that can be said for it is that the knight ultimately triumphs. In an attempt to convey the lacquered elegance of a 19th century Paris salon, chamber music soloists performed in a drawing-room setting. They were surrounded on stage by formally attired Indianapolis socialites seated on sofas and settees about as overstuffed as much of the music...
...some extent the Harvard administration seemed to explain this bias as a conscious reflection of an educational philosophy. Harvard was to train the leaders of tomorrow. Its glory was partly its mix of gentlemen and scholars. There was the expression of a conscious attempt to maintain the University's institutional power and prestige by placing itself at the service of the American ruling elite...