Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-confidence of the Kennedy White House circle, almost the first response heard was: "Has anyone ever made it eight years in a row?" (The answer, of course, is no. Franklin D. Roosevelt made it three times; Churchill, Truman, Eisenhower, George C. Marshall and Stalin twice.) TIME'S criterion for its choice is the man who "dominated the news of that year and left an indelible mark-for good or ill-on history." As usual, our readers were invited to make their own nominations. Everybody from Dr. Dooley to Chubby Checker was nominated, but most frequently suggested were...
Speaking to the Graduate Economics Club, Banfield asserted that "there is no defensible or coherent foreign aid doctrine in the United States." Stating that "United States interest is the ultimate criterion for the success of our foreign aid," the speaker attacked current ways of thinking about the usefulness of aid in prompting economic development, and challenged the idea that U.S. spurred economic growth necessarily engenders "friendship" with American...
...that big-city dailies with the organization and the money required to protect reporters covering integration in the South, do not bother to do so. The time-honored task of any newspaper worth the name is to report all the news--and "fit to print" should not be a criterion if it means that the national press deletes information which might prove embarrassing or distasteful to local, state, or federal governments...
...damning conclusion is that Harvard can as little afford to seem to accept one criterion as it can afford actually to do so. It must not only avoid total commitment to the little numbers, but it must do so conspicuously and persuasively...
...have him committed to graduate study by admission. A college in which graduates go on only to more study becomes as much an ivory tower as a prep school in which all seniors pass unthinkingly to ivy-covered halls. If Harvard appears to rely upon a single criterion, it produces an academic orientation which cripples the admissions committee, just as the appearance that everybody goes on to graduate study will produce a clear picture of the student who should go to Harvard...