Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military as a whole, with its tendency toward stiffness and even narrowness, rarely copes well with the challenge of dissent. Thus, a military court meted out what seemed unconscionably harsh treatment to the "mutineers" at the Presidio in San Francisco, one of whom was sentenced to 15 years at hard labor for refusing to stop singing (the Army judge advocate in Washington later reduced the term to two years). Equally revealing of the military mentality was an episode that occurred recently at the naval base in Long Beach, Calif. Fed up with the hippies, peaceniks and other irritating agents, base...
From a strictly educational point of view, it is hard to tell how well the schools are doing--but only because they are living up to their claims of being genuinely innovative. The great majority of community projects have adopted a highly experimental program developed in British primary schools and used there with great success. The British program is the antithesis of highly structured, authoritarian public school techniques. Community schools permit even kindergarten children large amounts of freedom in choosing what they want to study. Children flow freely between age-grouping according to ability and inclination. Grading is anathema...
...matches at M.I.T. will be the first in a grueling schedule of three matches in four days. On Thursday the netmen meet Amherst, which is reputedly strong this year, and on Saturday they will journey to Penn. Penn has a powerful team, and holds a big advantage on its hard courts...
...beat Penn on those hard courts it will be a real upset," said Barnaby. He added, "It would also be an upset if we beat them here on our clay courts...
...parodies both Hawk's Rio Bravo and Ford's My Darling Clementine (Sheriff holds murderer despite efforts of murderer's family). One takes Burt Kennedy seriously; he wrote a series of Budd Boetticher-Randolph Scott films now recognized a minor masterpieces, and directed some excellent films including Welcome to Hard Times and The War Wagon. The complete lack of conflict in Sheriff makes it a little lightweight, but it's handsomely made, and a lot more clever than most new American films...