Word: broad
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...suggested that the generalist is not obsolete after all. Technical knowledge becomes outmoded at a breathtaking rate. It has been estimated that one-half of what an engineer studies in college will be superseded ten years after he graduates. Thus it is more plausible to provide a student with broad concepts into which he can fit the necessary de tails later. Robert Hutchins, for one, has proposed that the college years be devoted exclusively to a liberal education; career skills can be acquired on the job. In effect, many big corporations already maintain impressive educational systems to provide such training...
Died. Daniel Fitzpatrick, 78, dean of U.S. editorial cartoonists, whose biting, broad-stroked drawings in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other papers won him two Pulitzer Prizes; in St. Louis. "I made an awful lot of people plenty goddam mad at me," Fitzpatrick once said-but then he got mad at an awful lot of people. In 1926, he won his first Pulitzer for a drawing of a mountain of paper looming over two tiny tablets titled "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today"; his second came in 1955, when he showed Uncle Sam marching into...
...committee said that any action at commencement would be taken in support of the demands voted at the Soldiers' Field meeting of April 14. "But the movement is part of a general discontent with the College," Phillip T. Aranow '69, a committee member said. "We are aiming at a broad-based action by hundreds. Certainly from indications of discontent it is quite plausible that hundreds will participate...
Entomologists still credit Nabokov as a serious lepidopterist. He described a dozen new variations of butterfly (mainly in the broad-ranging subfamily of blues), including the Lycaeides melissa samuelis Nabokov. His reports were models of precision, experts recall. But, in a prose necessarily dense with taxonomical terms, a few refreshing poetic riffs occurred: "From the opposite side of the distally twinned uncus," Nabokov wrote in a 1944 report describing genus Lycaeides, "and facing each other in the manner of the stolidly raised fists of two pugilists (of the old school) with the uncus hoods lending a Ku Klux Klan touch...
...ratted on his gang, the Devil's Advocates, by selling their sordid story to Like magazine for ten grand. The Advocates are angry, of course, so they leap aboard their Harley-Davidsons and go roaring off in search of Angel and Laurie, his little bombshell of a broad, who have hidden out in an abandoned house and taken up housekeeping. Soon, the "straight scene" starts to get to them. Angel shaves off his mustache and even gets a job. Laurie cooks his meals and occasionally cleans the place up. It's all too domestic to be true...