Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long corridors of Washington's ' old Patent Office Building are ornate reminders of 19th century architecture. But now that the Patent Office has moved, the building reaches even farther into the past. It is the new National Portrait Gallery, and its art affords the visitor an intimate introduction to the giants of American history...
There were no such complaints at last week's party. Indeed, for the past five years a traveling collection of TIME covers has drawn uniformly admiring crowds while touring North America. Individually and as a group, the cover portraits are a reminder, as Managing Editor Henry Grunwald pointed out in his introduction to the latest exhibition catalogue, that portrait painters "can see and show more than the camera. The portrait still has a great place in journalism and history...
...students find the transition from home to college difficult. In past times this was blamed by the student on himself, and most of them therefore tried to do something about themselves and sooner or later succeeded. Today both white and black students tend to blame the faculty for the difficulties they encounter in adjusting to a different way of life and study...
Watson said the 65 per cent of this year's freshmen were admitted to their first-choice House. Last year 60 per cent got their first choice, and in the past few years the percentages has dripped as low as 50 per cent...
...reflection of their own isolation from the University, the members of the Corporation will probably be less concerned that the new president share this community's sentiments or even that he be willing to listen to them. This selection policy seems to have been followed in the past, but Harvard's internal rumblings will be even more severe in the next twenty years if, after Pusey's retirement, it is faced with the outcome of a similar process conducted by the men now serving on the Corporation...