Word: attend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much as anything, Quat's longevity is based on the simple fact that the Armed Forces Council is currently split into four or five groups-none seemingly powerful enough to bring off a coup at the moment. Many of the generals seem too bored with the Council to attend its meetings, and last week there was even talk of dissolving the body-an act which could upset Quat's delicate balance. On the other hand, it could give Quat more freedom of action, particularly if the Council's functions were absorbed into the Defense Ministry...
Harvard has chosen to keep the deliberations of ad hoc committees secret and thus avoid the risk of public outrage that might attend the rejection of a tenure nomination, such as occurred at Yale this year in the Bernstein case. It is impossible to know for sure whether or not the committee act as a rubber stamp--whether the refusal of a nomination is a common occurrence, or whether the existence of the committees discourages thoughtless nominations...
There was some disappointment that the meeting was not better attended. Mrs. Ruth D. Terzaghi, research fellow in Engineering, said that she was especially unhappy that more senior faculty members did not attend...
Public schools holding special classes for children with special environmental problems will be required to accept similar students from private schools on a "shared-time" basis-already a longstanding practice in some communities, where parochial-school students attend certain classes in public schools. Since Title I is pegged to state levels of school support, it is expected to have a bootstrap effect as states realize that each dollar they add to their own support will bring more federal funds. Beginning in 1966, districts that increase their own spending by at least 105% per pupil can apply for a matching amount...
...scenes printed in the Advocate bristle a bit too thickly with jocular repartee, and they race like a mounted Paul Revere--outdistancing, at times, his characters' motives for acting as they do. Culpepper's play is all animation and exclamation unwilling to sit still long enough to attend to subtle character studies...