Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Premier Khrushchev evidently thought so too, and was not quite as enthusiastic about the prospect as Hayward and Labedz. Several days after the Times story appeared Khrushchev visited an exhibition of paintings and sculpture arranged by the Moscow branch of the Union of Soviet Artists. The Premier's reaction to some of the abstract art on display was someting less than charitable, and a day later Pravda re-asserted in an editorial the momentarily forgotten priciples of social realism...
...Pasternak's 'Dr. Zhivago' so desperately suppressed? Not because it contained a political attack on the Soviet regime--that could have been answered. Dr. Zhivago was truly a subversive because he rejected root and branch the whole concept of the revolution. He rejected it by ignoring it, by transcending it through his love for Lara. "You and I," Zhivago tells Lara, "are like Adam and Eve, the first two people who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with--and now at the end of it we are just as naked and homeless...
Illinois' enrollment of over 35,000 ranks it seventh in size among the universities in the country, but it will soon grow dramatically when a new four-year undergraduate branch in Chicago is completed. Nine thousand students are expected when it opens in 1964, and within five years it will expand to 20,000 with provisions "to grow as conditions demand beyond that time...
...plans for the new Chicago branch indicate, among other things, that the adherents of greater selectivity have been silenced at least for the moment, and that the Legislature still regard the optimum size of the University as that which will have space for all who apply. Some other states have established two-year junior colleges for the doubtfully prepared or those with limited educational aims, but very little relief of this kind for the University of Illinois seems to be in prospect...
...were drawn there by the compelling fact that the building was on Manhattan's most convenient site-handy to the trains from Westchester and the Lexington Avenue subway, which would deposit employees right on the corporate doorstep. Among the tenants were U.S. corporations ranging from Aluminum to Vanadium, branch offices of Canadian, British, Italian, Mexican and Japanese companies. And, of course, Pan American World Airways, which has leased one-quarter...