Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days of Nicholas Murray Butler, it did just that. America did not bother its universities, and vice versa. After the Depression and World War II, when a college education became the property of the middle class, so paltry a goal as the removal of "a little ignorance" would no longer do. Colleges had to justify themselves with "newer" ideas and "newer" research. Since the professors had all the answers, let them fix up society. So began the government contracts and the ties with business--in short, the philosophy of "activism," Barzun writes, which persists on campus today...
...century impersonators. Both men would agree that the university cannot stoop to teach values, no matter how politically troubled the times or how loud the student demands. "Values (so-called) cannot be taught; they are breathed in or imitated. And here is the pity of the sophistication that no longer allows the undergraduate to admire some of his elders and fellows: He deprives himself of models and is left with a task beyond the powers of most men, that of fashioning a self unaided...
...some sign, some clue, as to the meaning of their existence. They do not understand why they have obeyed Claudius' order to come to the castle; they do not have a clue to Hamlet's madness; and when, on a ship to England, they discover that their missive no longer calls for Hamlet's execution, but for their own, they do not know how to explain death...
...producer and director will also make cast changes. Some actors will lose their jobs because their roles no longer exist in the new version; others will be fired and replaced. By its fourth Boston week, Dear World had lost about a half-dozen of its original performers...
...testifies to the tremendous advantage of the home court in squash. The temperatures vary considerably from court to court, and to a large extent dictate the style of play. In a hot court the ball bounces higher; thus drop shots are less effective and the points tend to be longer. With Harvard playing away matches at Navy, Penn, and Princeton, coach Jack Barnaby has been drilling the team on long points with emphasis on stamina rather than finesse...