Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement of the state of the Ed School during the year 1966-67, Sizer also lashes out at the Federal Government for what he feels are its inadequate and misguided efforts at reforming core-city education...
Most ambitious of the new proposals is the $2.1 billion manpower program, under which the President hopes to forge a partnership between industry and Government to provide jobs for the hard-core unemployed. Last year's "concentrated employment program" conducted by the Labor Department identified some 500,000 Americans-mostly Negro, Puerto Rican and Mexican-American slum dwellers-who have never had jobs or who face serious employment handicaps...
...another of 103 companies that have shown interest in the program. The firms would provide on-the-job training, with Washington picking up the tab for all extra costs (transportation, education, medical services) up to an annual $3,500 per worker. The aim: to put 100,000 hard-core unemployed on the job by June 1969, and 500,000 to work by 1971. To coordinate the plan, the President created a 65-man "Alliance committee," chaired by Henry Ford II, whose firm has already launched an ambitious program of recruiting from the ghetto. The new group also includes such leading...
...life history in telegraphese, his horoscope, and a skeletal portrait of himself composed from 13 X rays. With the backing of a group headed by Poster-Art Enthusiast Marion Javits, wife of the U.S. Senator, 2,000 copies of the work will be reproduced and sold to hard-core Rauschenberg admirers at $150 a throw...
Paradox is at the core of Vasarely's throbbing vistas of geometry; it creates the tension that gives them vibrancy and verve. Although the 50 paintings on view appear to be little more than decorative flat arrangements of squares, lozenges and ovals, in fact the shapes are knitted together in complex honeycombs to create rippling illusions of perspective and depth. Glowing with savage chartreuses, electric blues, racing-silk greens and murky purple shadows, his panels, priced at up to $14,500, have made Vasarely the darling of multimillionaire collectors, including the Rothschilds and the Aga Khan...