Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freshmen would need English advanced placement scores of 4 or 5 and verbal SAT scores above 700 to take the courses. They will also submit short manuscripts as "a brief check on the test scores," but "nearly all who apply will be accepted," Kiely said. On the basis of this year's statistics. Kiely said that less than 200 Harvard and Radcliffe students would qualify...
...from an assortment of students and statesmen, professors and preachers. Last May, Johnson was more criticized than cheered for ordering a pause in the bombing and ending it after only five days. Similarly, he was faulted last week because he was considering ending the latest pause after only "a brief, one-month trial." There would undoubtedly be complaints if he ended the pause after six months. Said one Columbia University scholar: "The more you try to satisfy the peaceniks' demands, the more they escalate them...
...after the midday meal, millions of West German parents take to sidewalks, the slopes of nearby hills, or the 75,000 miles of marked paths in the federal republic's tidily tended forests. Side by side, Mercedes and motor bike repose in the parking lot; for a few brief hours, worker and industrialist, Cabinet minister and cabinetmaker are equal and often indistinguishable-clad (as are their wives) in sensible shoes, sturdy capes and shapeless hats. Toddlers are carried. Teen-agers desert friends and transistor radios. The whole family trudges, pausing now and then for a spell of tiefatmen (deep...
...goes without saying that the most enriched people of all are the audiences. In the brief decade or so when the new Elizabethans have come of age, their benign assault on the public sensibilities in Britain has deepened men's insights as well as their enjoyment. Theater, British style, is no longer a let's pretend. It is for real...
...belief that frequent elections are the best guarantee against tyranny. But in an age of mass communications and sophisticated means of sampling public opinion, annual or biennial elections are no longer necessary to determine the public will. The gentleman legislators of Jefferson's day could campaign at leisure between brief sessions; today's Congressmen have to steal time from heavy schedules in the capital to campaign strenuously in their districts...