Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announces that it will protect Italy against the Communists. American missiles rise out of underground silos. Young Communists race through the streets crying "Now we begin the blood bath!" On television an unknown pop singer is belting out Bandiera Rossa (Red Flag). Calls pour in saying how great she is, and the program goes on all night...
...modern history of a venerable institution that prides itself on its devotion to learning and the rational resolution of differences. It was a shock?to faculty, students and administration alike?that for a time the "Harvard way" had failed. No matter how soon the present crisis is resolved, the great temple of learning on the Charles will never be quite the same...
...enroll most students in mas-ter's-degree programs. This would ease college-teacher recruitment, and postpone the college-admission trauma two years, allowing students to choose when they are older and better equipped to do so. Another approach, being tried at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Mass., is for an "early college," a four-year program combining the last two years of high school and the first two of college. David Henry, president of the University of Illinois, speaks for many who want to upgrade the prestige of vocational schools so that adolescents not inclined to prolonged academic...
Though Newhall's Chronicle is frequently criticized as lightweight intellectually, the paper's circulation has climbed to 492,000, ahead of the Examiner (220,000) and the paper has been profitable since 1962. Newhall takes great pride in survival and dismisses the criticism. "It has been my opinion that the only way we could stay alive was to make the paper at times a seemingly frothy, purely enjoyable experience, beneath which is a strong, serious, liberal viewpoint about world affairs...
...does not mean that decision theorists have contempt for man. In fact, Edwards has a profound respect for the logical abilities of the human mind. One of the inexplicable wonders of life is that a normal man can, with almost ridiculous ease, solve in an instant problems of theoretically great complexity. Take for example, ticktacktoe. Theoretically, in five moves alone this childishly simple game can be played 15,120 different ways. Nonetheless, man easily cuts his way through these impenetrable thickets of choice to make X's and O's in the right combinations in order...