Word: national
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presents a stereotypical version of the key signers of the Declaration of Independence, together with the sometimes abrasive, sometimes soporific deliberations of the Second Continental Congress. With a practically nonexistent musical score, the show brings the heroic, tempestuous birth of a nation down to a feeble vaudevillian jape...
...outlook. Jeanine's family is well established in Boston. Her mother is the usual enlightened square. Her father is a professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He has sold his soul to the Pentagon but has brainwashed himself into believing he still serves the community, his university, and the nation. He has no clue that he is, in fact, an absolute fink...
...opinion the main answer to (1) comes from the concern of the Government with all aspects of increasing knowledge and skills in the nation and from the fact that research and training cannot be separated. The best training is obtained in a laboratory working on the most advanced and exciting problems of fundamental physics, and the best research is done in participation with questioning and imaginative students...
...which he invited various people to comment on his proposal stimulated by a small foundation in Washington to establish a major university in Washington, D.C. Etzioni asked for advice on behalf of the foundation as to the best procedures for establishing a major center of scholarship in the nation's capital. Hence, it should be noted that my memo was a response to a proposal of others to set up such a university, not a proposal or suggestion which I was making, as the CRIMSON indicated...
...many cases. Dr. Mary Ellen Avery, the new head of pediatrics at Montreal's McGill University, said that the application of knowledge that is now available would reduce the infant-mortality rate in America by 50%. That would give the U.S. the lowest rate of any major nation. It now ranks 14th, behind New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Scandinavia and most other countries of Western Europe...