Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teachers spontaneously coordinated assignments so that an English essay, for example, would deal with an idea being developed in a math class. They also compared notes on student weaknesses, gave problem kids more individual attention. Perhaps coincidentally, not a single member of "the group" left school, despite a 51% dropout rate in the freshman class at large...
...casting techniques, David Smith seemed to gain strength from wrestling directly with the raw materials of the steel age. His own work, Smith insisted, should be viewed both with the eye of a poet and of a workman, and he was proud that he had mastered his craft. A dropout from Ohio University after his freshman year, Smith studied art under John Sloan in New York, but he had also been a riveter in Studebaker's South Bend plant, assembled locomotives and M7 tanks during World...
...father recently proved that people are not as old as they look or as old as their birth certificates say. My father is 51, and he received his bachelor's degree from Harvard in June after spending a whole year there as a senior. (He was a dropout during the Depression.) I think this is a good example for all those middle-aged people who use their age as an excuse for not doing the things they'd like...
...even be programmed for Christian redemption, taught to forget in any desired period of time. But until Congress is convinced that adequate safeguards for protecting the individual's privacy are in force, the Budget Bureau is likely to make little headway. "We are all concerned about the dropout of today," said Gallagher. "But I'm interested in the computer reject of tomorrow...
Cliff is a chunky high school dropout whose shirttail flaps in the breeze and whose hair-trigger temper has at one time or another 1) brought him an official reprimand from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association and 2) cost him a place on the U.S. Davis Cup team. Psychologists would probably trace Cliff's troubles back to his formative years-between twelve and 14-when he played with his sister and "she beat me every time." Says Cliff: "She used to beat me so often that she didn't even want to play me any more...