Word: basic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change very much. The movement to change the system from within, however, has at least raised some serious questions about the Coop's social responsibility. Whoever governs the Coop for the next year cannot help knowing that pressure is now on to reevaluate some of the Coop's basic employment and community policies...
...particularly concerned with the basic policy question of ROTC's privileged pre-professional status. Currently, undergraduates may take essentially vocational ROTC courses but are prohibited from enrolling in courses at the med, ed, law, divinity, and business schools. A discussion of ROTC is on the agenda for Wednesday's HPC meeting...
...those elements are so confusing that Head Writer Keyes keeps track of them on 3-by-4-ft. cards, divided into several columns. As the writing team assigned to the specific show begins to deliver its drafts, the bits and pieces are switched around on the chart until a basic sequence is determined...
This is the basic situation of The Empire Builders by Boris Vian, which opened off-Broadway last week as the French playwright's first New York production, nearly a decade after his death at 39. Vian, who was also a novelist, poet, composer, translator, jazz trumpeter and engineer, obviously owed much to the work of Franz Kafka. Ordinary, everyday characters are beset and beleaguered by fantastic circumstances beyond their control-neither exactly allegorical nor neatly symbolic -which fill them with dread. As the play progresses, The Sound drives the increasingly unsettled father into even smaller and poorer apartments...
...been heading toward a classic industrial disaster. Founded by a flamboyant Parisian named Andre Citroën in 1919, the company has been controlled for the past 30 years by the Michelins, who generally consider autos an adjunct to their profitable tire business. Citroën's two basic models, the tinny, 20-year-old 2 CV and the 13-year-old, bullet-nose DS, were highly successful in the 1950s and early 1960s, when automanic Frenchmen would wait months for a car. That situation no longer exists, but Pierre Bercot, an able but conservative executive who became Citro...