Word: basics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been expensive to acquire," William Bond, curator of the Houghton Library, has written, "but they would be difficult or impossible to replace, their absence from a scholarly library would be unthinkable, and their artistic or historical values are susceptible to attrition through ordinary handling. They constitute the basic raw material and the evidence that must be handed on, intact if possible, from one generation of scholars to all those who follow...
...DISCUSSED this summer, there were two basic problems confronting the innovative faculty, and only time will tell how well they have been solved. First, the incoming students indicated that they were not all that eager to try such new and experimental courses. They wanted the "regular thing," as provost David Dickson said in an interview...
...business. Richard Nixon has called for a mixture of Government loans, tax incentives, private business aid and Negro self-help to create "black capitalism." Hubert Humphrey, urging all of that but with greater emphasis on Government aid, has stumped for "black entrepreneurship." He declares that the Negro has a basic right to be an employer as well as an employee...
...enterprises, which already dominate a sizable amount of the country's business, last week pulled a stunning coup. With a stealth that would have impressed Machiavelli, they gained virtual control of the biggest Italian private company, Montecatini-Edison, a widely diversified manufacturer of chemicals and many other basic products. The maneuver was accomplished through an unprecedented joint assault by the government's two largest industrial complexes, ENI and I.R.I., which between them have substantial interests in 275 firms and control all or most of Italy's steel, oil, shipbuilding, aviation and banking. The government...
...orchestra pulsates and the other people on stage stomp their feet in time and join in the song. There is no set on the stage and no subtlety in the musical number: the man whose story we are going to see is a man possessed by the most basic of passions. But Zorba is only one man and not at the center of Prince's show; his passions...