Word: branching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...executive and the power of his office, tend to talk about their political history in terms of presidential administrations. Yet last week, when it was learned that Earl Warren, the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, would soon retire from the Supreme Court, it was clear that another branch of government can define a historic period just as sharply-if not more so. For the past 15 years, the extraordinary "Warren court," spanning all but a few months of the terms of three Presidents, has had no less an impact on American life than the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson...
...almost exclusively with affluent whites; although black and Spanish-speaking schoolchildren may be guided through for a fleeting visit by their teachers, few return with their parents, and still fewer poor adults come in alone. To open their eyes, white administrators are now taking art to the ghettos with branch museums or art-mobiles. Often, they find whole streets in Harlem covered with murals by amateurs. Near by are apt to be makeshift art schools set up by residents. Although desperately in need of funds and technical assistance, such homegrown facilities suggest that underprivileged areas want art and are willing...
...Brooklyn's depressed Bedford-Stuyvesant area, the Brooklyn Children's Museum took over a building that had formerly housed a pool hall and an auto showroom, last month set up a neighborhood branch called MUSE. Its exhibits invite participation; there are African drums to pound, African masks that can be worn, and a display of exotic headgear with a sign, "Please...
...matter stands. Out of all the hassles a working relationship seems to be emerging between the SFAC and the Faculty with the Administration hovering near all the time. Next year the SFAC will branch out into subjects such as the University's financing policies and its relations with the Cambridge community...
...together and then leading to undergraduate courses." The number of basic Gen Ed courses has doubled this year. But Ford is quick to add that there is a distinction between an inter-disciplinary approach and an anti-disciplinary one. "A student still needs to have discipline upon which to branch out--it is not a matter of tossing away the catalogue," he says...