Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hopes the free world has left," he says earnestly, "and what could be of real help everywhere is a Jazz Corps!" The jazz audience, in large part, agrees, insisting that its musicians have been "the real ambassadors" all along. Jazz thinkers, quick to catch the drift of such talk, are constantly dreaming and demanding that jazzmen start getting some fast federal...
...drift of the Doty Committee's discussion of introducing new courses in all fields is inspired by an ideal of an up-to-date cultured man capable of appreciating the latest changes in the world, rather than one dedicated to a traditional heritage...
There is little evidence of a "drift towards Communism" in the uncommitted nations of the world, three experts on Communism told an overflow audience of alumni in Paine Hall yesterday...
...Cohen speaks of the "drift toward the departmental" of General Education courses in science. Clearly he interprets that phrase to mean that departmental preoccupations are invading these courses. But what if, as I hope, the opposite is true, and the attitudes of General Education are invading the departments...
...there may also be another reason for the drift toward the departmental. In order to attain "an insight into the fundamental principles of the subject and the nature of the scientific enterprise," i.e., what the Redbook calls the "structure" of a science or of science, the student needs a thorough, and more likely, a profound, grasp of the components of the subject, of the bricks of the structure. The student has to know things before he can appreciate what they mean in a broader view...