Word: basic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some people object that the urge to fend for oneself in as aggressive a manner as possible is basic human nature. This is not so. It is all a matter of human conditioning and any conditioning can be de-conditioned...
...mark a similar stage in their development--an album of working out themes that have been previously revealed and so an album making up in style for what it lacks in content. One is, of course, grateful for everything the Beatles do. These 30 songs, complete with your basic piquant photographs in a ridiculously overpriced package, are a rich pleasure; but still one misses the sense of discovery, the excitement of hearing something that lingers on half-understood in the senses, the irritating stimulating grain of dust that turns into a pearl. Such was that prophetic slowing down of tempo...
...second proposal--to limit but not abolish ROTC at Harvard--has the advantage of appearing as a middle-of-the-road alternative to the two "extremes" of abolition and status quo. But this proposal would not solve the basic problems which ROTC's presence here poses and would probably create some serious new problems...
...crisis situation produced imaginative crisis response. In many parts of the city, parents improvised schools in churches, storefronts, brownstone basements and apartments. Other parental groups packed the kids off for tours of the city's museums, galleries and exhibit halls. There were cram courses in basic subjects on both educational and commercial television. Despite the potential for mischief in so prolonged a period of youthful idleness, police reported that there was no significant rise in juvenile delinquency. A feeling expressed on both sides was that it was the kids who, by their restrained conduct, showed themselves...
Detroit's answer to the problem seems to be to reduce the warranty periods. The basic two-year, 24,000-mile warranty that applied to 1968 models has been cut to one year and 12,000 miles for the 1969s. That slash saves the industry, by FTC estimate, some $40 per car, or more than $300 million...