Word: classicize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chalmers has a vision. His ideal is the classic "well-rounded man," and he points to Oxford, his own alma mater, as an institution which has consistently succeeded in producing such graduates. Undergraduate specialization is even greater than at Harvard, and the colleges must play an important role in general education. Chalmers feels that the Harvard Houses should serve a similar function; to this end he has acted to increase intellectual ferment within Winthrop. One feels he would be entirely happy if Winthrop could resemble Balliol or Oriel in the days when Jowett and Whately walked the earth--sanctums where...
...Jersey withdrawal was a significant sign that scarcer and costlier money-that classic tranquilizer for a souped-up economy-was finally starting to restrain spending. Another sign: the National Industrial Conference Board reported that the nation's 1,000 largest corporations, which account for 75% of business capital spending, are making plans to expand less rapidly than they did a year earlier...
John Lithgow and James Paul's Histoire du Soldat is witty, charming, visually engaging--everything that Trouble is not. Stravinsky's score is a minor classic and the seven-piece ensemble plays with precision and grace. The English text by Michael Flanders and Kitty Black occasionally becomes more childish than childlike in its rhyming, but it captures the spirit of the original Russian folk tale more closely than the French text of C.F. Ramuz...
...Inspector General is the classic case of mistaken identity. The officials of an unnamed village learn that an inspector from St. Peterburg will soon visit their town, and may be travelling incognito. When they hear that a well-dressed stranger from Petersburg has arrived at the inn, they assume that he is their dreaded visitor. Actually, the young man is just a penniless fop who had lost all his money at cards and is stuck at the inn because he can't pay his bill. The mayor and his subordinates proceed to stuff their inspector with food, drink, and money...
...This book has done more for education and understanding of teachers than any other book," exclaims Jean Thomas, curriculum supervisor in the San Francisco public schools. "As a portrait of teen-age society, it is a classic on the order of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye," says Los Angeles Teacher Olga Richards. "I'm not familiar with the book," huffs H. M. Landrum, superintendent of Houston's Spring Branch School District...