Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administrative maze so that individual school administrators can get faster answers too. On the crucial problem of meshing integration and better schooling, he is committed to a plan that centers on creating four-year middle schools (fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades) that will draw students from broader areas, cross neighborhood racial lines. "We need a new approach to teaching where different backgrounds and races begin to intermingle," says Donovan...
Buckles and Bows. The shoemakers have focused on the male desire to look young and rugged. In men's shoes, the pinched, pointed-toe "Italian look" is out; it has been replaced by broader toes, bolder stitching, longer wing tips and plentiful perforations. Shoemakers have succeeded so well in selling men on the casual look that sales of sneakers, sandals and moccasins are expected to equal those of regular shoes this year. The industry has also brought out dozens of suède-and cloth-topped models with such names as Floaters, Renegades, Tweedies, and Lazy Bones...
...opportunities of spring-vacationing students are a bit broader this year. They can pursue beer, surf, snow, sex -or the repair of bombed Negro churches. Those who choose carpentry, however, may have a problem: a group at St. Louis' Washington University canvassed the South, could not find a burned-out church that had not already been claimed by other students...
...departmental reform had been practical, Hoffmann would still have launched the new program. For he sought more than the broadening of disciplines. As the first pamphlet on Social Studies made clear, "the program does not aim at establishing fields of concentration broader than those provided by the departments but tries on the contrary to make possible intensive work in important and separate areas." Hoffmann was not interested simply in training economists who had read Freud or sociologists fascinated by Hobbes. Rather he wished students to approach concrete social problems as entities in themselves, and to be willing and Hoffmann believed...
Speaking to an audience of 450 at the Harvard Law School Forum, Alphand said that "the form given to this alliance fifteen years ago" is no longer adequate because "Europe aspires to assume broader responsibilities for her own defense...