Word: depths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...interview with Jimmy Carter conducted by TIME Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian. Moving casually from his Executive study to the high-hedged patio outside, Carter answered questions about the direction and depth of his leadership at a time when opinion polls reveal increasing public dissatisfaction. Says Ajemian: "Carter seemed very durable, never exasperated...
More than anywhere else, this disease is reflected in the press. In-depth analysis of a problem is anathema to the press. There is a dangerous tendency to form a herd, shutting off successful development [of independent thought]. I have received letters in America from highly intelligent persons, maybe a teacher in a far-away small college, who could do much for the renewal and salvation of this country, but his country does not hear him because the media are not interested...
...Hyams did not push himself harder, for Capricorn One could be better. If the film had a few fewer plot holes, a bit more narrative depth and far less signposting dialogue, it might even have been a space-age Manchurian Candidate. A classier cast would also have helped. Gould, Holbrook and Waterston are all in fine, easygoing form, but Brolin and Simpson are useless heroes: they are not big enough stars or good enough actors to make us care about their fates...
...Core are quite minimal," he says he understands why the program would appear at first blush to be a considerable restriction on students' range of decision-making. In fact, he adds that if he were an undergraduate today, and had not bothered to study the Core program in depth, he might well find the proposal "a hassle...
...another sense, media coverage of the Core debate served a very different purpose. The attention that his proposals received in the national press, all the stories in Time and Newsweek and The New York Times, underlined the depth of national interest in the changing role of undergraduate education. "We were dealing with issues that were very much on people's minds around the country," he explains. At first, however, the breadth of attention the plan received surprised him--when he first realized that the Harvard reforms had struck some sort of educational nerve. After that, as the waves of publicity...