Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beginners. Balanchine and Kirstein put their heads together and decided that the first step in forming a company would be to open a ballet school. The reasoning: it would provide a constant source of new dancers whose training could be controlled so that they could walk right into the company. That is the way it worked out. The School of American Ballet soon became the best and busiest in the U.S., and from its classes came a stream of top American dancers.* School Director Balanchine drew up and supervised the curriculum, from the first positions of the eight-year-olds...
...education might be a new Jaguar and a Brooks Bros. charge account should not be permitted to claim his as a dependent. So even under the new system some arbitrary limit is necessary. (Perhaps it could be based on the total cost of tuition, room and board with a constant figure added for "expenses...
...Lamont the structural entity that weighs on many. Too much like a huge machine, with the soft breathing of its air conditioning, the almost imperceptible but constant humming of its lights, its often subterranean atmosphere, the building seems to some students a monstrous trap or an educational processor--the Frankenstein's monster of a mechanistic age. In spite of all the glass, these dissenters feel sealed into the building. Even a member of the staff said it: "If only we could open a window...
...dissenters who complained that the majority was "trying to define away monopoly." But for the first time, the apostles and supporters of Harvard's late Economist Joseph Schumpeter were in command. In his book, Capitalism, Socialism & Democracy (1942), Schumpeter held that inventions and innovations within business brought about constant "creative destruction" of old economic forms and the birth of new ones. In showing the creative role of large business organizations, he insisted that what looks at any moment like restraint of trade may be necessary for the encouragement of competition, as it has actually functioned in the economy...
...extent, the Act is largely self-defeating. But in a larger sense, the new policy is an attempt to set back a force which cannot be stopped. In the same way that segregation in American schools is doomed, the progress of education and the enlightenment it brings makes its constant advance a necessity. Soothing as it is, Malan's dream of the happy savage will not cure his internal disorders; the Union has offered the natives real education too long to force them to accept mere subsistence knowledge from their schools...