Word: basics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks is hardly sufficient time to analyze an Administration's style, let alone its basic thrust toward the future. Nonetheless, Richard Nixon is making some first impressions that promise to be durable. The President seems keenly aware of the importance of the beginning. So far, he has avoided the blast of major action, but his carefully aimed shafts denote a distinct mood and temper. Paramount among these is what a sociologist might call a sense of inner direction...
...moment, Overview is little more than a grand concept. Whether or not it will ever work is a moot point. But it is hard to disagree with the basic Overview argument that without practical visionary planning, both preventive and prescient, the future will be shaped by default...
...COULD BE argued that the controversial introduction by Candice Van Ellison--which should be read in its entirety--is valuable for its basic, even if deplorably tragic, honesty. But I think it is far more important to see the catalogue, as well as the whole show, as the museum's first and most important groping toward a new forum for the discussion of contemporary social problems. It would be self-defeating to expect every isolated statement or display in the exhibition to offer a definitive statement on a very difficult set of relationships...
...counted for concentration and related work. The Government Department, for example, noted that "in three of the four required areas. . . it would be possible for a student with a strong interest in black studies to fulfill his Departmental requirements with work in this area." In Social Relations, the "basic policy is to encourage students with such interests by allowing them to develop a program drawing upon the full resources of the University." Similarly, concentration requirements in History, English, Social Studies, and History and Literature, would permit students to fulfill from a third to half their requirements for concentration with courses...
...many years we have given basic medical instruments to students as a mark of our appreciation for their willingness to undertake the long, difficult road to an education as a physical. The instruments have been offered with the prior approval of the medical schools. Over the years, most students have accepted them gratefully...