Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Duplication is not the only weakness the committee found. Whether repeating themselves or not, most of the boys are not getting as much out of college as they should. Superior students suffer from having to keep pace with the dull ones, and too few ever learn just what a liberal education is all about. What U.S. education needs, says the committee, is a complete overhaul of the years between the second year of prep school and the third year of college. Among its suggestions...
...hear it said," explained Ryerson, "that business needs the wisdom of older men ... It is desirable [when] the older man's judgment is sound . . [But] I have seen many cases . . , where a man's judgment has not kept pace with the times. Since the individual cannot recognize the signs of age in his own case . . arbitrary provision for retirement . . . is the only feasible solution...
...University's two General Education catch-alls on the Middle and Far East have maintained a never-slackening pace with events in those turbulent Eastern areas. When, for example, the Korean War broke out, the General Education course on the Far East, Social Sciences 111, merely added Korea to a list of countries that already swept much of the East...
...avoid offense, the song board softened one line. For "We may gripe and yell/ But we fight like hell" there is now an inoffensive alternate: "But we'll fight, fight, fight/ Fight with all our might." The song will have its official unveiling this week when Secretary Pace introduces it on Jane Froman's TV show. After that, the Pentagon will wait three months to see whether it catches on. If not, the song board will look around for another...
Swift but erratic in pace, and streaked with a social consciousness that was quickly to fade from his later novels, The Shipwrecked is written in the vibrato style that has become Greene's trademark. Where his more mature books, like The Heart of the Matter, treat human weakness in religious terms, The Shipwrecked tends to blame it on a decaying society. But in its unpretentious, entertaining way, it proves again that Graham Greene could hardly be dull if he tried...