Word: generally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keynote address, J. Bronowski, director general of the Process Development Department of the British National Control Board, indicated that creativity is encouraged only in societies that value changes...
Three important factors in American education which must not be neglected, Conant said, include: a general education for all, vocational courses for those who do not wish to enter college, and a strong academic program to take care of the needs of qualified students...
...little opportunity to discuss it with their church members, and many had not received copies at all. At first it looked as if the synod's inability to approve the constitution on such short notice would postpone its going into effect at least until the summer of 1963-General Synods meet only at two-year intervals. But the Oberlin meeting decided to reconvene for a special session next July to vote on the constitution. This would give the Congregationalist and E. & R. church members a year to ratify the constitution, which could then be put into effect...
...part of nature; destroy nature and you destroy man. His ark is the archive in which he stores the species and records their curious lore; in recent years, many a neo-Noah has splashed a bright coat of paint on his scholarly scow and invited the general public along for the ride. Germany's Herbert Wendt (In Search of Adam) is a skillful skipper for this sort of trip, and he brings his passengers home with their intellectual pockets full of odd and fascinating information about almost everything from the housecat to the hoolock...
Duluoz rambles the streets of Lowell, stars in a track meet, eats, sleeps, walks home three miles after holding hands with his girl Maggie (as far as sex goes, the book is innocent enough to be read by a bishop, or a postmaster general). Everything is lengthily reported, but none of it matters much. Perhaps the trouble is that young Duluoz does not matter. As a brash, noisemaking ten-year-old, he lived in a world full of wonders; as a teenager, he seems gross and unimaginative. Maggie Cassidy was taken, like most of Kerouac's recently published books...