Word: establish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SFAC voted as well to postpone new elections to the body till December and to establish that future terms will run from December-to-December...
...relevance" -- a dainty way of saying that the school was not paying enough attention to studying urban problems or preparing its graduates to teach in urban schools. The report recommended that an ad hoc committee begin formulating a new program of urban studies, and further, that the school establish a new "criterion of intellectual vigor." Specifically, the authors felt that students interested in field work should be encouraged to work with community educational agencies and other educational groups and should be given credit and supervision. Professors had long resisted this suggestion. They argued that stressing practical experience would turn...
...hits most of the high spots, the Nixon machine also manages to avoid dangerous pot holes and slippery curves. Speeches tend toward the platitudinous and noncontroversial. To solve the drug problem, Nixon said he would triple the number of customs agents, review smuggling laws, and work to establish international commissions to stop traffic in narcotics. All were reasonable enough proposals but they seemed like mild medicine indeed for the devastating plague that Nixon talked about...
...solution if there is one, is to establish a community of men and women who think alike and have made a clean and total break with the 'established way of doing things.' The reformation of the outside society can only be accomplished as the community grows, perhaps gathering newer members simply by the force of example...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the world's greatest living architect, has long been fascinated by the idea of building museums. In 1943, he outlined his concept for "a museum for a small city" in Architectural Forum. "The first problem," he said, "is to establish the museum as a center for the enjoyment, not the interment, of art." To do this, he proposed to erase "the barrier between the work of art and the community" with a garden approach for the display of sculpture, plus a single, glass-curtained gallery built on a steel frame with freestanding interior walls...