Word: formative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several Houses have initiated a new program of seminars and tutorials this Fall in accordance with Dean Monro's plan to establish a broader intellectual experience for students not enrolled in regular departmental tutorials. The plan, administered independently by the respective Masters, varies greatly in format from House to House...
Checkmate (CBS) shows promise of becoming one of TV's better private-eye series, is slickly and expertly tooled (moving tree shadows, sudden screams), and uses its one-hour format to advantage by tossing in three detectives instead of the more usual single eye. Calling themselves Checkmate, Inc., the three took on their first customer last week, a female rancher (Anne Baxter) who turned out to be a murderer...
...only a half-hour show, done in the commercial-cut format of the western and the soap opera. Yet it was one of the most effective shows on TV this season...
...genuine articles, such as Louisiana Convict Pete Williams; the "city-billies," who pick up their materials at second hand but try to retain the original flavor; the "art singers," who transform the materials in carefully stylized arrangements, and the frankly commercial groups, which fit folk lyrics into a pop format. Among folk music's currently popular or promising names...
...seminar program’s virtual lack of format, the result of a vague Faculty ruling and of administration by the Advanced Standing Committee, has permitted individual leaders almost complete freedom. The result has been pursuit of special interests, appropriately scaled down to Freshman proportions but scarcely adjusted to the real potentials and limitations of a Freshman program...