Word: basic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...institute will be a summer program which will concentrate in three basic areas: management, administration of art organizations, and impact of management of artistic objectives...
Occupying Army. A November staff report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence quotes one Panther spokesman on the key to Panther ideology. "We start with the basic definition," he said, "that black people in America are a colonized people in every sense of the term and that white America is an organized imperialist force holding black people in colonial bondage." From that quasi-Marxist assumption, absurd to most whites but increasingly appealing to some blacks, the Panthers conclude that the police are an occupying army. As the staff study puts it, for the Panthers "violence...
...start their own institutions and communities. Education for enrichment or amusement rather than for professional skills will become a lifetime process as universities expand to provide an almost infinite variety of postgraduate courses. In fact, says Marshall McLuhan, older people will have to go back to school to learn basic skills. The young, he says, are not interested in the mundane knowledge it takes to run a technological civilization; the old will have to learn it if they are to keep their world running...
...announced that Greece would resign immediately from one of Europe's most prestigious political forums. He did not have to explain why. Everyone in the room knew that the first order of business after lunch would almost certainly be to suspend Greece from the Council for denying basic democratic rights to its citizens without justification...
There are some students who feel that there really is a viable alternative to coeducation at Wellesley. They envision a Wellesley with expanded cross-registration and exchange programs with both men's schools and foreign universities but still maintaining its basic character as a college dedicated to the education of women. Wellesley does have a responsibility to offer a fine education to those girls who do not care for a completely coeducational institution. If Wellesley's problems are approached and solved creatively, a women's college could still be considered a valid and exciting type of educational institution. Wellesley could...