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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Florida, the state convention cut its annual support for Stetson University from $270,000 to $150,000, and seriously debated whether to cut off all funds for the Baptist school. Stetson's offense was accepting $845,000 in federal grants to construct a science building and add to its law school. By contrast, the Kentucky convention in effect authorized Baptist-backed schools in the state to accept federal loans if their administrators...
Robbe-Grillet. "It is-quite simply." In his novels, Robbe-Grillet aims at a "certain ceremonious solidity, often slow-moving, with a theatrical sense which sometimes fixes the attitudes of characters in a rigidity of gestures, words and decor, recalling a statue or an opera." Finally, he tries to "construct a space and time purely mental, that of a dream or memory...
Seems that in the bill is a teensy clause authorizing the Secretary of Transportation to "develop and construct a civil supersonic transport." Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D.-Wash.) who helped slip the seven words into the bill isn't sure what they mean; neither is the chief counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee who wrote...
...shall construct a hypothetical case. Let us suppose that at the time of the Hungarian Revolt Khrushchev had paid a visit to Moscow U. Let us imagine that the students (who in fact were indignant, and who did protest) had succeeded in "physically confronting" Krushchev. Let us imagine that they piled him with embarassing questions and that they hooted indignantly at his answers. Would we have criticized them for discourtesy? Would we have criticized them for obstructing Krushchev's movements? Would we have criticized them for disturbing the dignity of a great academic institution...
...enough for Harvard and M.I.T. to loan their planning officers and architecture professors to Cambridge in advisory roles. Speed is essential and in this case speed means money. To hurry housing construction, both schools have several options: they could provide "seed money" to finance construction, that is, an initial investment from their endowments which would be pulled out as soon as outside investment had come; they could donate some of their widespread land holdings as construction sites or sell them at below market-level costs; they could even construct non-university housing themselves and donate it or sell it cheaply...