Word: driftful
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...rich tradition of experimental colleges that start with high ideals but soon drift into dogmatism, anarchy or extinction. Massachusetts' seven-month-old Hampshire College hopes to be different. Created by the academic establishment, which vows to make it work, the school is thriving as a model of well-planned radicalism...
Finally, he is unsure how to end his film and lets it drift off in surrealism. Though his contempt for capitalism is apparent, Saura is unwilling to commit himself to a concrete alternative. He scores point after political point, but he stops his argument short of its finish. The film is a proof without a conclusion. And the problem is not in Saura's treatment but implicit in the subject itself. Capitalism is a system that yet awaits its formal conclusion, and while Saura marks time until the fall, he can only offer a pessimism cloaked in satire...
...reflection from the moon. By precisely clocking the round-trip time of each short burst of light-about 2½ seconds-scientists have been able to measure the distance between earth and moon to within six inches or less. They are gathering invaluable data on such puzzles as the drift of continents, the earth's polar wobble and possible changes in the force of gravity. At the Mount Hopkins station, scientists are tracking reflector-equipped earth satellites and measuring pollutants in the upper atmosphere...
...seaport of Kep into the southern part of South Viet Nam. Northwest of Saigon in Tay Ninh province, 18,000 ARVN armored cavalrymen surged over the border into the Parrot's Beak and the Fishhook. Both sanctuaries were cleared out last spring, but now Communist troops were beginning to drift back...
...leave a cloistered small-town existence in impoverished Nova Scotia for the promise of lively jobs, money and women in Toronto. They are, of course, doomed to failure. Their only city acquaintance is an uncle who refuses to recognize them; unable to find anything better, they finally drift to working in a bottling plant. Eighty dollars a week is a lavish salary to Peter and Joey, and they spend whatever they get on drinks and waitresses. When Joey, the more frivolous of the pair, knocks up a girlfriend and decides to get married, he goes on a no-down-payment...