Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goal of these reforms--to force Faculty commitment to the tutorial system--is in keeping with the original, commendable spirit of the tutorial concept. But this legislation, which lacks formal methods of enforcement, must falter before a predominantly resistant teaching staff. The history of failed tutorial legislation sadly presages this effort's fate. The 1958 tutorial regulations, which allegedly still guide each department, require that Faculty members teach a minimum of 30% of a department's tutorials and that graduate students teach no more than 30%. However, a 1977 CUE study of tutorial programs in five of Harvard's largest...
...real problems began in June 1972, when then-President Richard M. Nixon vetoed a bill that would have provided long-term funding for public broadcasting. Nixon charged that broadcasters had deserted the essential concept of local programming recommended by Carnegie I. Yet recently released documents show that underneath its public statements, the administration was really criticizing public broadcasters for their anti-Nixon viewpoints. A memo to H.R. Haldeman from Clay T. Whitehead, then head of the Office of Telecommunications Policy, reveals a plan to quietly purge public television's anti-administration spokesmen. John Erlichman advised that the "best alternative would...
...Knowles became the youngest general director of MGH, where he began some structural changes to eliminate what he called "the cattle-car concept of medicine." He replaced long wooden benches in the hospital's emergency ward and outpatient department with comfortable modern chairs and remodeled stark waiting rooms...
...That is the way in which one-half of one of Hollywood's most successful husband and wife teams has legalized her name after two bad marriages. And that is the way she will be billed in a March 7 NBC special, Cher ... and Other Fantasies. The concept is weak, but her 31 costumes and 22 wigs are dizzying. She appears as a slithery snakess and in a bare-belly ensemble which makes Cher resemble Ms. Tutankhamun. But perhaps the best is one in which she lounges like a leopard, and sports 27 ft. of hair...
BENEITIA PORTER'S acting, like the set, only obscures Beckett's script. Beckett himself might see nothing wrong here; his plays need not and sometimes cannot make sense on an intellectual level. But Krieger's concept of isolating Porter in the hallway ruins the drama of the piece...