Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...service will have three purposes: to fill critical needs of foreign governments and institutions concerned with economic development, to increase the supply of trained professionals who have first-hand experience with the problems of developing nations, and to enrich the teaching and research conducted at Harvard on the subject of economic development...
...separate agencies. "This makes it impossible," says Mrs. Green, "for any member of Congress to know what is being done." The aid comes with strings-not so much crippling directives as warping pressures. Since it traditionally gives aid only for specific purposes. Congress tends to produce crash programs that enrich one segment of education at the expense of others. A classic case is the 1958 National Defense Education Act, which has poured millions into "exotic" language study but not one cent into training college teachers of French, German and Italian. To some educators, who foresee more federal aid as inevitable...
...arts would function under the same political climate as the rest of the country," Papp said. "There are always attempts to intimidate, dictate, and control even when you don't receive money. But if you develop a public, you become strong and can fight off censorship and enrich our democracy...
...more than $150 million left. So he launched the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the first and then biggest ($125 million) "general purpose" foundation. This week the corporation issued a 50-year report of giving (total: $303.9 million) that reveals how one rich man with a conscience can profoundly enrich generations unborn...
Abstract art, in its heyday after World War II, had a vitality and expressiveness that will forever enrich painting and sculpture. But in much of the abstractionist work of recent years, the vitality has seemed played out, and a sizable school of critics has decided that abstract is old hat. Last week, musing over the recent annual at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Frank Getlein, the conservative art critic for the liberal New Republic, gave a lively verdict on the state of abstraction today...