Word: need
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better. When U.S. occupation authorities took over after World War II, one of their first acts was to break up the zaibatsu, notably the monopolistic Japan Steel Co. The surge of domestic competition that followed stimulated the country's phenomenal recovery. Now Japan is discovering another result: a need to rebuild some of the old industrial concentration...
...Directions. Director Vilgot Sjöman told his leading lady even before filming began that "it will all be very improvised and we'll use all the film we need. The whole thing will be rather crazy and we'll get all of Sweden into the film." That's precisely the trouble. Sjöman is like Stephen Leacock's young nobleman, riding madly off in all directions. He tries to reproduce the substance of Swedish politics, render a portrait of contemporary youth, satyrize the mechanics of film making, and dramatize his own hang...
...conversation fluctuated between A's and B's. In particular, we filled that first cozy hour with a series of emotional assertions to the effect that none of us gave a damn about grades anyway. Suddenly the instructor remembered something. To make the grade curve appear somewhat realistic we need a couple C's. How about a few volunteers? Unanimous silence at last...
...after undergraduate tutorials, and wider Faculty involvement in these directions. Implementing these will require changes in attitude and structure in individual departments. Not all of the changes make sense in every department, of course. In the Natural Sciences, where students work more intimately with professors on research projects, the need for an "ombudsman" is not as great as it would be in a more diffuse department. Not is the proposal for abolishing grades as relevant to a science grad student who is constantly scrutinized in a laboratory situation as it might be to a student in a large seminar course...
...relations, yet there is widespread support for the "C+ is still a plus better than C" theory. An English department study committee will probably recommend one new non-graded course for next year, but chairman Warren G. Bloomfield is typical in insisting that "customers who but our graduate students need a grade criterion to judge students that general criticisms don't provide...