Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Central place in the undergraduate program belongs to the workshop courses in drawing and design fundamentals at the Design Center on Memorial Drive. The courses have proven so popular that they are to a large extent responsible for the increased number of concentrators, now over one hundred, according to the Dean. Furthermore they have attracted so many non-concentrators--about one-third of the classes--an additional instructor has been hired...
Police Guard. Prim, convent-bred Michiko Shoda had no part in any such shenanigans. But, just as in the eyes of many Japanese women she is the most successful symbol of their emancipation, so has she to some extent become a symbol of the hated modern world to Japanese traditionalists-mostly men over 30. Some of the kazoku (noble) families make no secret of their chagrin that their own blue-blooded daughters were passed over as a bride for the crown prince. A court lady angrily describes Michiko Shoda as "that little upstart." Recently, as a guest at an exclusive...
...Pledged free elections, heard his supporters roar back, "No elections!" Replied the Prime Minister piously: "This shows to what extent politics have become discredited in Cuba...
...omnipresent dollar squeeze also determines, to a very large extent, what foods can be served. "Cost considerations are not the main factor involved in menu planning," the Dining Hall director states, "but they play a very important role in our considerations." Expensive meat cuts at dinner will be counterbalanced by less costly foods served at other meals--the cost of a roast beef dinner may be offset by goulash, chop suey, or some other inexpensive dish...
Provincialism, in its non-restrictive aspects, can provide a center of loyalty, an accumulation of attitudes and standards to serve as a basis of action and thought. As a state of mind, it furnishes a setting in which ideas can be fixed and evaluated, and, to some extent, ordered. Eastern provincialism, as seen at Harvard, is an especially enlightened type: it is urbane, cultured, informed and relatively tolerant. But where Harvard leaves people to themselves superficially, it makes more stringent demands intellectually. It imposes its own attitudes and values in the guise of liberality, expelling and excluding alternative patterns...