Word: dependability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...value of any of these proposals will in part depend on the value of tutorial; and with this in mind, the CEP recommended several measures designed to increase the importance of tutorial work. It was proposed that students receive grades for work done in tutorial, with these grades entered on the student's record. Moreover, the Committee felt that senior Faculty members, by devoting more time to tutorial, would improve the quality of instruction...
...last analysis, whether or not anything useful was achieved would depend not only on Dwight Eisenhower, Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev. It would depend, too, on Gamal Abdel Nasser, a man who in the past has shown a blind determination to gratify his own imperialistic ambitions though the heavens fall. Unless Nasser renounced his habit of setting international forest fires in the calm assumption that someone else would put them out, no agreements achieved at any summit meeting could bring stability to the Middle East...
Friday Club. The new zaibatsu are of a different stripe than their prewar predecessors. Single families, or single firms no longer control the great combines. The zaibatsu depend for leadership on the financiers of their powerful banks, have set up central liaison councils with euphemistic names designed to attract as little attention as possible. Mitsubishi's "Friday Club," presided over by blunt, crop-haired Mitsubishi Trading President Katsujiro Takagaki, 66, is simply a bimonthly meeting, of 22 Mitsubishi company presidents, who continue the cementing process by arranging loans and raising funds for brother companies...
...prologue to American International Pictures' The Screaming Skull-a sample of just the sort of thoughtful, steam-heated promotion that sucks the bloodthirsty into U.S. movie houses. Pushers of cinemonsters know that one ghoul is about as good as another, and so the proceeds of horror films must depend on eerie drumbeating...
Wodehouse laments the fact that "the Edwardian butler . . . has joined the Great Auk, Mah Jong and the snows of yesterday in limbo." Says he: "The change in conditions in English life has made it rather difficult for my kind of writing. Comedy does so depend on prosperity." Once a professional drama critic (for Vanity Fair), in recent years he has habitually left any play after the first act, no matter how good or bad. Rather sadly he recalls that England was once full of the dotty people he wrote about. "But I suppose a couple of wars have made...