Word: cores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return followed the classic pattern of Latin American "revolutions." Every traditional element was present: a bold, shrewd Strong Man, a hard core of army malcontents, a weak government. Similar combinations have brought armymen to power in many other Latin countries (see box). In this case, it remained only for Batista & friends to write in the characteristically Cuban touches...
...There are," said he, "many sincere Protestants, Jews and Catholics who believe that secondary education divorced from a denominational religious core is bad education . . . That such people have a right to organize their own schools I do not question . . . [But] to my mind, our schools should serve all creeds . . . Therefore, to use taxpayers' money to assist [private schools] is, for me, to suggest that American society use its own hands to destroy itself ... A dual system [of schools] serves and helps to maintain group cleavages...
There is much to be said in favor of the three-course requirement. Each of the three areas included in the G.E. program is essential to attaining "the common core of knowledge" which G.E. is supposed to provide. To cut away one course, then, is to deny the program's underlying purpose, and once that is done, there is no reason against making all G.E. courses simply another option of the students' search for intellectual fodder. Even one concentrating in a field like Government, say, supposedly has much to gain from a year spent with the Social Sciences. If this...
After contrasting with ours the educational systems used in other countries, Conant then spoke on the objections voiced toward the American public school system. He charged many people with believing that a secondary education divorced from a denominational religious core of instruction is a bad education. "They erroneously assume," Conant remarked, "that the tax supported schools are not concerned with moral and spiritual values...
...Government has been forced to drop seven of its original points, along with one defendant-the Investment Bankers Association. The core of the Government's case remains a "triple concept": 1) certain bankers traditionally underwrite negotiated securities for certain corporations, 2) these "traditional bankers" divide a constant proportion, of any subsequent deals with the people who were in on the first one, and 3) junior members of these banking groups, when they get a deal to handle themselves, repay the big boys by asking them to join. By this "syndicate system," said the Government, all the defendants had-conspired...