Word: intact
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...Krol's style is the big Archdiocese of Philadelphia, which is to the church what Mayor Daley's Chicago is to the Democratic Party: a bastion of strength and discipline in the midst of turmoil. Priestly dissent is rare. The huge parochial school system remains intact, with remarkably low tuitions (after Pennsylvania's grants to private schools were banned by the U.S. Supreme Court, the state legislature voted $47 million a year in "voucher" aid to parents of private school pupils). This fall Krol capped a decade of construction costing $120 million by opening a new downtown...
...tunes (which rate pretty high by Broadway standards) are more or less intact. The talent is not. The dances-including an endless wedding celebration-are seemingly performed by one of those middle-European troupes Ed Sullivan used for cultural filler. Most sorely missed is the magisterial Zero Mostel in the role of Tevye, which he created on the stage. He has been replaced for unfathomable reasons by the Israeli star Topol, who labors under the handicap of having to project great amounts of charm and personality when he has none to spare. The credits for Fiddler list Norman Jewison...
Offensive tackes John Ferullo and Monte Bowens both returned to action against Brown after missing the Princeton encounter, so the Crimson front wall is almost intact...
...Modern Language Association Survey showed that schools which have abolished their language requirements have, in general, experienced some decrease in language course enrollment. In a sample survey of 100 institutions they found that 25 per cent of college entrants attended language courses in 1965 when the requirement was intact. All of these institutions rescinded the language requirements in subsequent years, and in 1970, with no requirement, 14.9 per cent of entering students signed up for language courses...
What happened to Johnson's deep distrust of generals and admirals? He carried it with him from the Congress up to the threshold of the presidency. Had it been intact in the Oval Office, Viet Nam might have been a different story. The official White House transcripts of the Johnson days show the high brass to be invincible warriors of unsurpassed wisdom; history has disproved that and Johnson used to know better...