Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general education in the natural sciences on a footing with the other two divisions. The program in natural sciences is set up with such a low standard of achievement that a man can leave the College knowing a little high school algebra and plane geometry, having an idea of the biological developments through history, and nothing else. It is possible to graduate from Harvard with no conception whatsoever of the physical sciences; and yet perhaps more than any other force over the past 150 years the physical sciences have shaped the form of our lives...
...omitting references to the U.N. Under Keats's grand-jury rules, they were as justified as the New Canaanites, and so, he admits, were the Tennesseans who passed the law that still makes illegal the teaching of evolution in the state. If Americans are unable to swallow the idea of a single national curriculum-and most Americans cannot-there are two alternatives: trust the professional educators, many of whom happen now to be life adjusters; or follow Keats's uneasy conclusion: There is nothing to do except "be careful not to move to Tennessee...
...best arguments for industry-wide bargaining is the way the idea has worked in practice. Of more than 125,000 collective-bargaining agreements in effect last year, roughly one-third, covering 40% of all organized U.S. workers, were negotiated between labor unions and groups of employers. Though only a few businesses, such as the garment industry (TIME, March 17), bargain on what amounts to an industry-wide scale, dozens of others negotiate contracts through associations of from two to 20 or more companies. The trend is particularly strong in service and construction industries, where both union and management groups like...
...against it. It is also leary of cooperation with the rest of the industry lest it bring down the antitrust lawyers. Thus, unlike steel, where the strongest company does the talking, the auto-industry pattern will probably again be set by Ford, which fits the U.A.W.'s idea of the perfect sparring partner-not too strong, like G.M., or too weak, like Chrysler. The automakers have industry-wide bargaining in effect, but without any of its protection...
...Jorgenson and Sylvia Hunter's idea of turning the clock back is to get divorced and marry each other. A couple of years pass, and as Molly and Johnny cool toward their parents, they warm to each other. In keeping with the outdoorsy spirit of the novel's amours, Molly finally succumbs to Johnny on a sand dune. The wedding bells have a somber ring, what with Molly pregnant at 17, but middle-aging Ken and Sylvia Jorgenson rally round, and Summer Place ends on a sunnily implausible note of general contentment...