Word: interest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what of the student whose talent does not put him in the top ranks of artistic performers? There must be classes that incorporate performing (for credit) for him as well. Students want less and less to work for non-credit courses; in the interest of their education, they must somehow be accomodated. Exposure to performing--to creating and to expressing--is nearly as essential to the "liberal arts education" as is the exposure to analyzing and to critiquing, which is more heavily stressed in today's curriculum. Bok and many faculty members recognize this need and are working within time...
...State Department, Johnson's charges were read with considerable interest and alarm, but her conclusions of patterns of torture and systematic abuse were rejected as unproven. Meanwhile, in a breach of diplomatic courtesy, Israel's secret service, Shin Bet, with the approval of the FBI liaison office at the American embassy, put Johnson under surveillance and tapped her telephone. Relayed to Washington were Shin Bet reports that she was intimately involved with Palestinian terrorists, both politically and personally. Following her tour in Jerusalem, she was denied tenure in the foreign service. In Washington last week, she accused...
...create Starr in 1966 and was its chairman from 1969 until 977. In 1971 he set up a separate venture called Sitco in partnership with three other Starr officer-directors. Sitco bought 7 Texas movie theaters, but the investment went sour; revenue from the theaters could not cover the interest on the partners' loans, and they faced a threat of personal bankruptcy. In 1974, however, Buckley allegedly proposed that Starr itself buy the theaters. The next year it did -for $8 million, most of which represented assumption of the partners' loans. The SEC charged that this...
Skeptics suspect that those predictions may be too euphoric. Peking has very little interest in importing consumer goods; those Cokes will be mainly for tourists...
Perhaps the most meaningful tribute to Einstein is entirely unplanned: the renaissance of interest in his scientific work. Before his death in 1955 at 76, Einstein had called himself a "museum piece," a fossil who had long since slipped out of the mainstream of physics. Indeed, his greatest work, general relativity, fell into an intellectual limbo. Explains University of Texas Physicist John Wheeler: "For the first half-century of its life, general relativity was a theorist's paradise but an experimentalist's hell. No theory was more difficult to test." Physicists turned to other concepts, mostly concerning atomic structure, that...