Word: impacting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This an essay on that concept, particularly on how it has worked and failed at Harvard. It cannot yet be assessed in relation to all American education, though it seems to have a widening impact on schools and colleges in the nation...
...depth of the lower-level Humanities and Social Sciences is one problem. These courses have undeniable impact, for their reading lists are scarcely surpassed in the University and they are usually very well taught. But some people wonder if they do not try to do too much, to read too many books. Except Humanities 6, the lower-level Humanities courses read no fewer than eleven great books in a year, and often quite a few more...
...moral impact is beginning to be felt, e.g., in the Republic of South Viet Nam, which U.S. aid and Vietnamese enterprise have transformed in less than three years from a war-ravaged country into a notable anti-Communist bastion. There doughty President Ngo Dinh Diem (TIME, May 20) is now lifting a standard that attracts many another Asian leader: he is providing remarkable proof that economic planning can be successfully combined with the classical values of Asia...
...fund commissioned Commonweal Executive Editor John Cogley to write a report on blacklisting in the entertainment industry. Unfortunately, the whole study appeared to be so opinionated, even to objective critics, that it lost much of the impact it might have had with the general public. On the other hand, the fund-supported Bibliography of the Communist Problem in the United States, compiled by Cornell Historian Clinton Rossiter, Georgetown Law Professor Joseph Snee, S.J. and Harvard Law Professor Arthur Sutherland, was a valiant if incomplete attempt to do a much-needed job. The investigation of security procedures and firings, made under...
...character. The House's proposed 7% cut would "amount to gam bling unwisely with the security of the nation," he told the subcommittee, and if the House votes that cut this week the Senate ought to restore at least $1.2 billion of the cut to avoid "an immediate impact on our defense program." Fitting Old Shoes. "I don't see why we should cut the defense budget at all," said Wilson. "It mystifies me. I don't think the Russians are five feet tall now any more than I thought they were ten feet tall last year...