Word: certain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot training"). The real job is Oxford's challenging labor: the independent pursuit of "fineness of mind." All are reading "P.P.E." (philosophy-politics-economics), a stiff course enthusiastically approved by the U.S. military. "This is an ideal opportunity," says Pete Dawkins. "At West Point, we achieved a certain scope in our education. What we need now is depth...
...West. Protest is unlikely; Big Brother is watching through a network of one informer for every 20 students. But escape is fashionable: in the last 19 months "model" Leipzig lost 108 teachers and more than 700 students who fled to West Germany. "You get to a certain point," says one girl refugee. "Then you can't stand the constant 'You must! You must!' any longer...
Light in the Darkness. Nurserymen have known since 1920 that certain plants could be made to bloom earlier than usual by shading them with opaque cloth for part of each day. Guess was that something in the plant's internal mechanism recorded the smaller amount of sunlight, signaled the plant that the days had shortened, that colder weather was approaching, and that it had better flower fast. But botanists were unable to identify the day-measuring mechanism or explain how it worked...
...famous monuments have become, quite literally, invisible, for lack of a spot from which they can be viewed with safety." And it is maddeningly true that "As for the museums, they are the worst-organized, the worst-hung in Italy-a scandal, as the Florentines say themselves, with a certain civic pride." With these strictures out of the way, there begins a portrait of former glories and calamities that combines a meticulous observation of the past and the art that has outlived it with some of the year's most readable prose...
What a Federal aid program would mean to the educational standards, "no one is wise enough to foresee." For instance, until a few years ago, certain social science courses might have been forced on the students, if the government had been in control. Today, advanced math and science courses could become high school requirements, Conant says...