Word: embarkment
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...free to give the time necessary to embark on an extensive process necessary to find a new dean. He plans to conduct extensive interviewing, and hopes to select a permanent replacement for Dunlop within three months...
...politics. But, unlike Americans who are presently engaged in soul-searching over their government's criminal actions, the Vietnamese are not troubled by such inner qualms. They may have second thoughts about aspects of military strategy, but they are not plagued by retrospective doubts about their initial decision to embark on an inevitably violent quest...
...Super Fly. Three black hoods who are down on their luck knock over a numbers bank in Harlem, getting away with $300,000 and killing a couple of cops and a gaggle of gangsters. The constabulary, the Mafia and the black crime organization that ran the bank each embark on a separate campaign to bring the bandits to rights and, of course, start stumbling over and shooting each other in the process. If the film makers had cared to concentrate on the political or social implications of such a story, they could have produced a kind of Battle of Algiers...
...Holy Angels parochial school [Oct. 30] is both strict and successful. By defying nebulous modern educational theories. Holy Angels has proved that a strict and structured environment can and does lead to successful learning. Its remarkable results speak for themselves. The 1,300 students at Holy Angels may not embark on such cloudy voyages as groping for self-realization (a common goal of our professed modern educators), but they are learning to read and write. And shouldn't that be education's first goal...
Some slight differences, however, have been detected in the behavior of the sexes in the voting booth. Women seem to prefer the safe-and-sound candidate, the one least likely to embark on war or some other hazardous undertaking. They are a bit less racially prejudiced when they vote, a bit more internationally minded. Their response to charisma is apparently overrated. Younger women may jump and squeal, older women may gush over a candidate like John Lindsay; but once they go to vote, they are less susceptible to their emotions. It was not the glamorous ex-PT boat commander, John...