Word: need
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about the orphans' surrogate mother (Shirley Jones) and her erratic spouse (Jack Cassidy), who went off to play Hamlet and ended up as a circus clown. Shirley Jones looks decorative, and Cassidy is an inexhaustibly beguiling entertainer, but the scenes they have to play are sentimental postcards in need of falling snow. The trouble is that the show won't last until winter...
...pressure to change their ways. Last spring, reacting to the politics of "law and order," Congress passed an Omnibus Crime Control Act that contains a direct attack on Supreme Court doctrine. Never mind Miranda's strict rules in federal prosecutions, says one section of the law; now judges need only consider "all the circumstances" in which a confession was obtained be fore they rule on whether it was voluntary. That was, in effect, the formula before Miranda. When the first test case reaches the Supreme Court, the justices are likely to find the new law as unacceptable as Miranda...
Myths to Existentialism. The report faces up to student complaints that higher education has drifted into irrelevancy. One key recommendation is that the university be organized so flexibly that it can quickly create new colleges addressed to contemporary problems, then dissolve them when need or interest wanes. The study recommends the creation of five such colleges as soon as possible. One might be devoted to action on urban problems, another to social philosophy, with related courses ranging from the study of ancient myths to existentialism...
Constitutional Government. Oklahoma also proposes to combat the "loneliness, frustration and lack of meaningful participation" that pervades many campuses by splitting its big campus (current enrollment: 15,500) into small congenial groups. Freshmen, who need more counseling and personal attention, would live in housing units holding 50 students, upperclassmen in groups of about 250. The housing units would largely shape and enforce their own social regulations. A central student congress would have almost a free hand to gov ern student activities and suggest changes in any university-wide policy. The power relationship between the student congress, the faculty senate...
...swirling, circular stairway. They can promenade from one gallery to the next without descending, thanks to glass-curtained, connecting bridges that overlook both court and outdoor plaza. Pei believes that such bridges give a "change of pace" between exhibition rooms. "Besides," he adds, "in a museum your eyes need a rest...