Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outlook especially glum for private colleges? A chief reason is that they must compete with public colleges, which get regular subsidies from state governments to keep tuition low. The average yearly private-college tuition is now $2,970 (not including room and board), compared with public-college tuition of $600. And there is pressure on the private schools to continue raising fees, since tuition now pays for less than half of a private-college education; gifts, endowments and Government grants must make up the difference. At Harvard, tuition, room and board charges have risen this year to $7,500. Others...
...probably caught his idea for Man and Superman from Schopenhauer. The glum philosopher held that "egotism is deeply rooted-but the species has a greater claim on the individual than the perishable individuality itself ... The growing inclination of two lovers is really already the will to live of the new individual which they can and desire to produce." Shaw labeled this will of the species the Life Force and gave an old formula an ingenious plot twist-boy meets girl, boy flees girl, girl gets boy. Q.E.D.: the Life Force triumphs again. To this, as a metaphysical dimension, Shaw added...
...first is the "metropolitan plan," which tries to block white flight by incorporating suburbs under city control, then busing whites back into town to achieve balance. The courts have struck down such plans in Detroit and Richmond. Armor adds another glum note. After studying inconclusive results of the one metropolitan-integration plan tried so far, in Louisville, he says it does not seem to work. Whites, denied escape to near suburbs, move farther away, or flee into private schools. Even in sprawling Los Angeles, where, Armor thinks, some sort of metropolitan plan should be instituted and might work, the chances...
...National Chamber of Commerce and a former top OMB official, says: "The President needs a change at OMB, a man who can stand toe-to-toe with someone like Labor Secretary Ray Marshall or Defense Secretary Harold Brown and tell him to drop programs." Carlson's glum conclusion: "There will be no serious budget cutting with Mclntyre there...
Dover's gleaming, laminated covers and sprightly interiors belie their origins. Eighteen years ago, after shuttling around Manhattan, the Cirkers settled on Varick Street, a glum manufacturing area south of Greenwich Village. The industrial pallor of Dover's office walls suggests a place where parking tickets are paid, and the low clatter of sorting machines is more reminiscent of post office than publisher. But within those corridors the search for new volumes is as lively and noisy as a fox hunt. Some 200 employees are engaged in the tracing of new sources, designing covers and books, filling mail...