Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficulty in getting scientists to teach elementary Gen Ed courses is an intensified version of the recruitment problem in other fields. Teaching a Gen Ed course involves a total commitment to non-specialized undergraduate education, a commitment which all departments have good reasons not to embrace. The natural intellectual momentum of an academic department carries it to the frontiers of knowledge in its field and tends to make departmental courses "pre-professional" programs to initiate the student into the most recent discoveries. The same momentum drives professors to seek satisfaction outside the Harvard community. Certainly more prestige (and often more...
...openly regarded a free, unmanaged council as a threat to their authority. "They are men of zeal, I am sure," John told a friend recently. "But they are not running the church. I am in charge, and I won't have anyone else trying to stop the momentum of the council's first session." Other Catholics rejected the spirit that led to his teaching encyclicals and the "opening to the East." It was a Roman Catholic editor, William Buckley of the National Review, who dismissed Mater et Magistra as "a venture in triviality." Pacem in Terris was coolly...
Officially Sheldon Glueck retires this year from the teaching faculty of the Law School. Yet, few take this retirement seriously, for the momentum of his accomplishments is so great that his influence will continue to be felt. His research, instead of taking some of his time, will now take all of his time, but many students will still consult with...
...problem. At home unemployment is high. There seems to be more concern in the country over a budget deficit than for a tax cut. In view of all these things, there is some impression and talk in the town and country that your Administration seems to have lost its momentum and to be slowing down and to be moving on the defensive...
...better one defines the position, the more indefinite the momentum becomes, and vice versa...