Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trickiest problem the committee faced was deciding how much voice students would have in choosing the new professors. Violent riots at other colleges brought the issue to national attention, and the protest over Soc Sci 5 provided an example closer to home. The solution Rosovsky found was a quiet hedge: the committee that is to search for the new professors will be half student and half faculty. The tacit understanding seems to be that students won't be saddled with any professors they find unbearable. Considering the inevitable objections that any overt policy of "student control" would spawn, the report...
...subjects. The University upheaval he sees as a healthy effort to restore the University to its rightful place as detached critic of the system instead of participant in its oppression of human life. "Everytime a professor goes to the Pentagon he is binding the University that much closer to the existing society," Mumford emphasizes...
Americans might seek, for example, to decentralize their governing institutions on all levels and bring government closer to the people. As a politician's phrase, this has lost all meaning, but it could become at least a partial reality. Decentralization might turn into just another slogan, and the idea carries obvious dangers. But given the right balance between necessary central administration and local authority, decentralization could do a great deal to enhance the individual's feeling of importance...
After slipping into orbit, the second Soyuz extended its winglike solar-energy collectors: it looked like some species of space bird as it sought out its sister ship. "We've been hunting for you," said someone in Soyuz 5 as ground controllers nudged the ships ever closer. Shatalov took control of Soyuz 4 to maneuver into final position, and the two ships docked. "He's raped us," Volynov said...
...nucleic acids are as dependent on their loyal enzymes as a general on his junior officers. The bovine ribonuclease that has been synthesized will have no immediate value as a treatment for any of the ills of animals or man. But its synthesis shows that man is coming closer to his goal of emulating nature at the most basic, biochemical level...