Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liveliest critic-inspector of colleges and universities (Campus, U.S.A.). "As sympathetically as possible," World War II Veteran Boroff (corporal, Army Intelligence) set out last winter to scrutinize West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy. The current Harper's publishes his third and final report: a blast at service academy education as so full of "narcissistic preening" that it may be too unreal for the real world...
...shepherd's crook. His wife (Pier Angeli) is shown as a scarlet woman of Sodom who looks back at the destruction of her home town and is turned to-now if that's a pillar of salt the Venus de Milo is Mother Machree. And the big blast in the last reel is a low-cost holocaust, obviously done in miniature, that practically constitutes an insult to Jehovah...
...Rafferty, who calls himself a "conservative revolutionist," had hardly been sworn in last week as California's superintendent of public instruction when he let go with a bracing blast at the "pablumized" progressive education that he says afflicts California. If he has his way, Rafferty will bring about "nothing less than the philosophical-educational reorientation of the greatest state in the union...
...Administration expects hot objections, typified by Ohio Senator Frank Lausche's recent blast that ''we have legions of Peace Corps workers already in our country"-he mentioned ministers, parents, teachers, social workers, the police, and parole officers. The Administration argues that thousands of idealistic students and others need a Government agency (probably under the Health, Education and Welfare Department) to organize, pay and steer them into good works. "We need to offer visible avenues of service to these people," says a White House study group...
...Minière, which might be expected to exaggerate in the hope of dissuading the Katangese from doing any more damage, says that the Jadotville plants could start rolling again in two to four months. Most outside observers figure that Union Minière will again be producing full blast well before that-provided the Kolwezi dams are not blown...