Word: drop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drop Everything...
...memory of better ways, perhaps the university can reform itself. Barzun is doubtful. The universities must reform together, but the competition for money and prestige has carried scholarly individualism out of control. The "new university" will try to get "newer and newer," larger and larger, until the parts drop off. Newman's vital idea, the spiritual necessity of a center, has failed. The university has become a crossroads, not a community. And even as a crossroads, Mr. Barzun predicts, it will soon have no higher function than a traveler's restroom. THOMAS GEOGHEGAN
...match, Schienmann staged a brilliant comeback, rallying from a 2-0 deficit in games. In that stretch, Schienmann shifted into an aggressive, less orderly style of play. He cut nearly every ball off at mid-court and forced Ben Heckscher of Williams to play from the backcourt where his drop shots and corner shots were less effective...
...Normally, such change portends a general slackening in about six months. The Commerce Department reported last week that Americans, who had saved only 6.3% of their incomes in the free-spending third quarter of 1968, socked away 6.9% last quarter. The figures confirm what retailers have already noted: a drop in consumer buying. Now, as expected, the squeeze seems to be spreading to auto sales. Chrysler sales are down 12% from early last year, when strikes at Ford and General Motors gave the company an unusual advantage. To bring inventories in line with current sales, Chrysler will...
...inconsistency of Williams' performances testifies to the tremendous advantage of the home court in squash. The temperatures vary considerably from court to court, and to a large extent dictate the style of play. In a hot court the ball bounces higher; thus drop shots are less effective and the points tend to be longer. With Harvard playing away matches at Navy, Penn, and Princeton, coach Jack Barnaby has been drilling the team on long points with emphasis on stamina rather than finesse...