Word: heighteners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...academic area; (b) to provide opportunity for the student to discover what scholarly inquiry in general is about... (d) to give early opportunity for the student to test strenuously his academic pre-dispositions." (p. 8) "The seminars were in no sense to replace departmental courses; they were, ideally, to heighten their impact." (p. 17) "We did not worry that by pursuing a focused inquiry we would lose sight of breadth or method--we hoped, rather, that in the pursuit the student would discover breadth and method..." (p. 39) The report continually emphasizes the value of close association with an academic...
...Atlantic Partnership" reflects a mind that has obviously sucked in and organized everything published on European integration, N.A.T.O. defense, U.s. trade and tariffs, and de Gaulle's foreign policy; he has squeezed his conclusions into lucid categories and characteristically spread a thin ironic net over them, which serves to heighten and sharpen his discussion. It is amusing and rewarding, as the editors no doubt mean it to be, to see Hoffmann's thoroughness and detachment showing up the other contributors. "American pronouncements and desiderata are afflicted with a kind of cosmic faith in easy harmony," he writes of U.S. reactions...
...respect for classical form and balance rather than in an effort to record again the long familiar heroics. He succumbed to none of the emotional excesses of his romantic contemporaries, and while he was always true to nature, he never became a slave to realism. To heighten mood, he sometimes painted his figures in green and orange-a practice that was to become one of the hallmarks of the later expressionists...
While Davis was rehearsing with a mixed cast on Long Island, Dorothy Dandridge made her debut at the Highland Park, III., Music Theater as West Side Story's Anita, a Puerto Rican role. Such occasional successes only heighten the general sense of frustration that Negro actors share. Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis in summer stock can be accounted for by their great box office appeal. But for the journeyman Negro actor-and even for such established Negro stars as Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil and Diahann Carroll-there is a disconcerting scarcity of parts. "It's very discouraging," says...
...reporting their results. A major element of the defense of research contends that scientific method and reportable results are the goal of the research. But a second element of the defense claims that experience is a legitimate goal of inquiry, and that psilocybin should be used in order to heighten perception so that the experimenters may gain new insight into personality by perceiving behavior more clearly while under influence of the drugs...