Word: barred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winning the Works. Down at the Café de l'Agriculture, on the corner of the Place de la République and the Rue de la Liberté, the talk turns easily to the mayor himself. The men around the bar call Dabard "our own little De Gaulle" and yarn about his imperious tactics. The new water works? Ah, well, Dabard knew that the town council disapproved, so he appointed an independent commission to "study" the plan. To no one's surprise, the commission thought the project was splendid, and Dabard signed a construction contract. The council...
...Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) degree in stead of the standard Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). Soon a few holders of the J.D. discovered that they got job offers ahead of mere LL.B.s solely on the basis of their impressive-sounding degree. The significance was not lost on the American Bar Association, which endorsed the new degree with uncharacteristic haste. J.D.s have proliferated ever since. Without fanfare, more than 109 of the 150 accredited law schools in the U.S. have now switched. Last month Harvard made the change, and last week so did Columbia...
...like most of my colleagues, recognize that the times have changes and that the old ROTC formula no longer suits the temper of the contemporary university. I for one do not wish to bar the participation of educated young men from this or other universities in the military services. Nor do I wish to diminish the role the military services have played historically in assuring our security and freedom. That is not the purpose of the resolution voted by the Faculty last Thursday. For my part, and here I can speak only, as one member of this Faculty. I would...
Unusual Hoorahs. Washington has been warning since the expropriation last October that unless Peru paid compensation, the U.S. Government had no recourse but to enforce the law. As a result some critics read last week's action as a retreat after fruitless bar gaining on the issue and scoffed at the "Chickenlooper" amendment."Maybe there was an element of brinkmanship in this whole situation, and if so, we blinked,"said a U.S. official in a back ground observation that was later contradicted by the State Department. Gen erally, however, the U.S. received the kind of welcome hemispheric hoorah that...
...Rossini," Beethoven said to his young Italian visitor in the spring of 1822, "you are the composer of The Bar ber of Seville. It delights me. It will be played as long as Italian opera exists." As usual, Beethoven was exactly right. Although Gioacchino Rossini dashed off 38 operas before his retirement at the age of 37, he was long known as essentially a one-opera composer. Many of his lively overtures are concert hall staples, but the musical dramas they introduce were generally considered too florid for modern ears and too demanding for contemporary voices...