Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next election. But unlike Goldwater, Dewey had a powerful, well-oiled machine. Moreover, Dewey was beaten in 1944 by Franklin Roosevelt, a wartime hero of incomparable stature, and many people felt that Dewey should have another chance. Again, such is not the case with Goldwater. So Complete. In a broader sense, the conservative cause whose championship Goldwater assumed suffered a crippling setback. For a number of years, the conservative and moderate wings of the G.O.P. had taken increasingly divergent paths, with the moderates dominating. Conservatives cried out constantly that if they were but given the chance, the G.O.P. would...
Shoot the Works. Then and now, many Democrats figured George Murphy as a pushover for Pierre. Murphy, quite naturally, sees himself differently. "I consider myself a human engineer," he says. "I've done a lot of things in my life, and I have had a broader chance to study people than anyone I know. I've lived in every kind of place, from Beverly Hills to Hell's Kitchen. And I've worked in speakeasies and in big corporations and everything in between-mines and garages...
...natural sciences are not required to take any General Education courses in that area. However, such persons often have little acquaintance with sciences outside their own field. I feel that besides some acquaintance with the other areas of knowledge, a science or engineering student should gain a broader knowledge of science in general, and the ability to relate different disciplines...
Moreover, if one examines the first specific goal for reorganizing Gen Ed rules--including new areas of knowledge--and also remembers that a cardinal aim of Gen Ed is to encourage students to take a broader view of their own specialty through work in other fields, one realizes that the Doty Committee is emphasizing the need for breadth in Gen Ed, is asking that students delve into three or four broad areas of knowledge...
...experience of departmental education, we suggest the above reasoning as a profitable way to distinguish between a Gen Ed course and a departmental course. Although a Gen Ed course may treat a few varied topics in greater depth than an introductory departmental course, it will be aiming at a broader goal. A Gen Ed course should try to imbue in the undergraduate the tendency to think like a student in Natural Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, History, or Literature...