Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...books which would prepare him to ideas and books which would prepare him for college work. Part of the University's program could be solved in one of two plans: an early admission program, permitting high school juniors to omit their senior year and come straight to college; or, higher standards and more comprehensive courses on the secondary level...
...second alternative, the University, unfortunately, cannot determine higher standards in secondary schools. The colleges have no direct influence over high schools and prep schools, no way to change curricula and institute more meaningful courses of study. Whether raising entrance requirements would force better preparedness on the part of secondary schools is doubtful; on a nation-wide basis it seems highly unlikely that standards would improve because a few colleges heightened admittance requirements...
...Dallas kids yelled as the fat man stumped onstage, flashed an 88-key grin and tore into the piano with both hands, like a starving man wolfing a platter of chicken. The kids shrilled an octave higher as the performer knocked out a couple of bars introduction, then quieted down to mere noise as he ducked his head shyly, leaned over to the mike and opened a satchel-sized mouth: "Ah'm walkin' "- each word a hard, booming beat-"Yes indeed, Ah'm talkin'." A diamond-heavy right hand jackhammered treble chords between beats; three saxes...
...slipped 1% behind the corresponding week in 1956. Yet according to the Federal Reserve, sales for the year to date were 2% better than last year. Predicted Chicago's Commercial Discount Corp., after a survey of 361 retailers: sales will wind up 1957 at least 6% higher than 1956's record...
Having released his special demons of Caesarism, De Riencourt in a kind of guilty afterthought tries to pour the jinn back into the bottle and mix with the tonic of a higher historical synthesis: he lamely concludes that there are "ways and means of reviving our moribund Culture while retaining all the good and necessary features of Civilization...