Word: impetuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With all this as the impetus to action, the School's Student Association agitated for, and won, faculty recognition of student "mirror committees" on Academic Policy, Lectures and Publications, and the Library, funded a student-run newsletter which has already criticized passive student roles and the training of the School's teaching fellows, and along the Harvard chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, backed an evaluation of Ed School courses. At the same time, another group of students banded together informally as the Woeful Educators, obtained two course innovations, and will soon submit reports on urban education, supervision of student teachers...
...officially committed to a long-term total effort that cuts across every federal department and involves every program that in any way relates to the environment that perpetuates poverty. Last week Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner created the new post of family-planning coordinator to give fresh impetus to birth-control programs-a field that the OEO has treated gingerly despite evidence that the poor have the most children, and grow poorer as a result...
...goes, scene upon scene upon scene, one little square of activity abutting and reinforcing the next, like the parks of London themselves. Even the physical city seems to shift and change under the impetus of the new activity. Throughout London, wreckers and city planners are at work. Once a horizontal city with a skyline dominated by Mary Poppins' chimney pots, London is now shot through with skyscrapers, including the 30-story London Hilton and the 620-ft. London post office tower. Westminster Abbey's statues and memorial have been newly cleaned and painted, and the dome...
...contemporary concepts of God. The project was under consideration by the editors for nearly a year. What first brought the idea into the continuing discussions of possible cover subjects was the visibly growing concern among theologians about God and the secularized world of the mid-1960s. It was given impetus by the emergence of the "God is dead" group of theologians (TIME, Oct. 22), and the stir they created...
...matter of survival. Viet Nam today is as close to the U.S. as London was in 1940." At Georgetown University next day, he said: "Our problem today in Asia is that we are abysmally ignorant of that part of the world. Out of the tragedy of war comes an impetus and incentive for knowledge." On a flying trip to Manhattan, he alighted in the penthouse of the Carlyle Hotel and, pounding the arms of John F. Kennedy's old rocking chair, mused aloud: "The war is doing for us what the Sputnik did in the space field...