Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recommending reforms in the program will not end the Committee's work. All the possible variations and improvements on Gen Ed (some of them were listed in Tuesday's editorial) will leave the University cold without some concept more definite than a cliche behind them. The Faculty will not commit itself to a program of vague phrases about great books, or glimpses into fields of study. Technique, as an earlier generation of educators put it, is helpless without vision...
Without Dillon the delegates got down to work analyzing the Alliance's disappointing first year. Many Latin American nations complained that the U.S. was quick to commit funds but slow to disburse them. In a spirit of selfcriticism, they also noted their own shortcomings. Only half of the countries had completed or were close to completing development plans, either short-or long-range. Eight countries had adopted tax reforms, five others had modified their tax systems; the rest were simply conducting studies. Large-scale housing is still in the planning stage; improved schooling is hardly under way; the shortage...
Martin Luther King knows that in the struggle for justice and human dignity in the South he and his people will commit mistakes and may suffer reversals. But these will not cause them to faint, for, as he says, "Freedom is like life. It can not be had in installments. We have it all, or we are not free...
...nation whose citizens trade and travel need consider whether or not it will be a member of the community of nations. It cannot help itself." Editor Coolidge wrote a prophetic study of the young Russian state, discreetly signing it "K" because he did not want to commit the quarterly itself to any point of view...
...Notorious Landlady. Kim Novak and Jack Lemmon commit murder and mirth in a horribly funny rooming house. The Lemmon twist saves...