Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Macdonald uses the existence of this system in Russia as an argument for his plan, and it is true that the Soviets have used it to develop first-rate athletes and well-drilled teams. But this system is inimical to American society. If part of the cost for a free society is that of inconsistent, or even poor athletics, it is well worth paying...
Each child gets three to five hours every week with one of the 16 resident psychiatrists, besides an individually tailored program of schooling and shopwork. Most important, every child is encouraged and helped to develop family-like attachments to patients and staff members...
...Habits. Southern editors who try to call their shots as they see them must develop thick skins. Notable example: Hodding Carter, whose Greenville Delta Democrat-Times (circ. 11,980) delivers courageous coverage in the midst of hostile Mississippi. "We print anything about the controversy locally, regionally or nationally that we can get our hands on," says Editor Carter. Mrs. Carter often gets threatening telephone messages for "that damned nigger-lover husband of yours...
Gerschenkron, who is also active in the Russian Research Committee, considered the new doctrine "an innovation," but emphasized that the Soviets are presently interested in relaxing tensions to combat spiralling inflationary tendencies within the USSR. He added that Marxism was today merely an empty shell within which the Russians develop opportunist policies, and that Khrushchev had definitely refuted Marxist doctrines in several portions of his speech...
...Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 10. If, in spite of faculty and student pressures, more of these courses could be distributed, and interdepartmental committees would be enabled to accomplish something beneficial, if not striking. Although no one expects the great morass of courses ever to develop any coherent form, improvements can be made if the faculty will only consider a more logical curriculum important enough to bestir itself...