Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...page book proceeds by criticizing formal education at the University, several departments, the club system, and some of the other extracurricular activities. The writing was done by Leo Raditsa '56, john A. Pope, '56, Angus Fletcher 4G, and Peter Davis...
...exams. To be perfectly consistent in its structure of prestige, i.e.'s ideal university would also have no degrees or any other symbol of competence. Present methods of challenging incompetence are certainly not ideal, but in the present state of society it seems difficult to do without some formal evaluation of the individual, especially if he is to set himself up as an expert or professional. Having marks may encourage the prestige bug, but it does not prevent creative thinking. i.e. contends that passing an exam requires only one night of concentrated study. If this is true, a considerable section...
...final discussion of Algeria threw the last formal session into overtime, and delayed by five hours the signing of the year's most uncommunicative communiqué ("a useful exchange of opinions"). No sooner had Khrushchev asserted a pious hope that for the Algerian problem France would "find an appropriate solution in the spirit of our epoch" than he lurched up to the Egyptian ambassador at the huge Kremlin reception that followed, and lifted his glass in a toast "to the Arabs and all people struggling for national independence...
...were lodged in the Eisenhower Suite), he saw the ancient sights, guided by TIME Inc.'s Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce, filling in as host for ailing Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end, Harry Truman in top hat and formal morning dress, Bess in black, went to the Vatican for a half-hour private audience with Pope Pius XII. What was discussed? Truman clammed up and smiled: "When I was President and a big shot came to call on me and told afterward what was said . . . he didn...
...During the past two months, the AEC has received and is actively considering more proposals for processing mills than it did in any two-year period before." In 1955, the U.S. had only nine mills operating, with contracts for five new ones. As of last week, there were ten formal mill proposals before AEC, eight for new mills and two to expand existing plants...