Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Subject A." On his first day out, Nixon barnstormed New England, told 240 Republicans at a $ 1,000-a-plate dinner in Portsmouth, N.H.: "Any statesman who is open-minded must consider facts and retain principles. Bob Taft did it years ago in housing and education. Above all else, Goldwater...
A new play by Graham Greene is a curiosity and a half. Called Carving a Statue, it stars Ralph Richardson, who is a single-minded whittler. To the exclusion of all else, he works in his studio on a massive statue of God. Well, not quite all else. He takes...
Those who prefer to be wrenched to their senses will do well to dabble in "Ordinary Differential Equations," Math 218, which courts their curiosity with "real critical points" as well as some "complex singular points." Meanwhile nautically-minded folks plunge into "the influence of naval command of the seas" in...
Mrs. Straus, wife of the president of Radio Station WMCA, is a dry-minded girl who decided a year and a half ago to "bring about a system to end all the chaos." With a volunteer staff of 25 (including socialites and civic leaders), one secretary (Columnist Max Lerner'...
An unnerving degree of chance rules curriculum change in most of the 30,000 local school systems in the U.S. Lacking the financial and scholarly resources to rewrite courses, they have to take curriculums in packages from textbook publishers and teachers colleges. An energetic exception to this educational drift is...