Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...networks are steadily building up their reportorial staffs, they still have too few men in the field. In Washington, a correspondent may cover Capitol Hill one day, the Labor Department the next; on the following day a story may take him out of town. He has little time to develop expertise in any one area...
...Newfoundland Premier Joey Smallwood, the Churchill Falls project is named for the late Sir Winston, who quickly gave it his blessing as a "great imperial concept." Smallwood also sold Britain's N. M. Roth schild & Sons on heading a consortium, British Newfoundland Corp., Ltd., to develop it. For the five-year construction job, Brinco expects to hire 5,000 men, fly in 600 million lbs. of equipment and supplies. For a starter, it has already bridged the river above the falls, and built an access road to a townsite and an airfield 10 miles away...
Oddly enough, Rock finds little happiness in Happenings, but he does develop a thirst. One drink leads to another, and the aftertaste leads him back to Scarsdale. Ultimately he learns that it takes more than a surgical retread to renew the inner man, which was perhaps obvious all along...
...Life of One's Own. A basic thrust of a college education ought to be toward helping students to develop "a life of one's own-a sense of self." Instead, says Eble, "every major movement in higher education seems to be away from the kind of confrontation, contemplation and discipline necessary to help a student shape himself." He sympathizes with students who react against the impersonal university by turning to social action but warns that "a commitment to self" must precede a "commitment that takes them to the barricades." What students need are more free hours...
...Eble's view, the purpose of higher education should be to produce a lifetime "sense of style" involving "mastery over all one does, with simplicity, harmony and grace." At the same time, it should develop a "sense of worth" based largely on "passionately held beliefs and passionately felt responses to experience." Not at all incidentally, good schooling should also provide "an escape from boredom" and "lead us to laugh in the face of heaven or hell. Education should teach us to play the wise fool rather than turn us into the solemn...