Word: hindering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more radical approach is taken by David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences. Of each assumption underlying our educational system, Riesman seems to ask: what does it do to help or hinder the development of man into what he--in Riesman's view--ought to be? Thus he feels that American culture generally involves thinking in terms of sequences or categories which are boxed off from one another. For Riesman, the question is not one of accepting this pattern as given and of working within it, but one of deciding whether or not it is valuable...
...time, stifling information makes it difficult for scientists to exchange ideas. "Work has meaning only as it is connected to the general fund of knowledge and thereby established as a base for further increase of knowledge." He observes that to stop publication of work done in one field may hinder the progress of others. Historically, significant advances have been the result of cross-fertilization: solution of a problem in one area leads unpredictably to the solution of another problem in an entirely unrelated field...
...event of a conventional war with Soviet forces occupying Europe, Halperin continued, cessation of American-European trade might hinder America's ability to retaliate if the United States, through trade agreements, had allowed itself to become dependent on European production...
...attempt was made to hinder distribution. One CRIMSON editor passed out 500 copies in 15 minutes...
Unlike other young guitarists with great technical facility, Diaz does not let the special effects confuse or hinder his expression. His phrasing is carefully planned, his rhythm strict but not pedantic, and his dynamics carefully tempered. Mr. Diaz interprets his music intellectually rather than emotionally, maintaining warmth with his tone quality and haunting sonorities...