Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sharp Curtailment. The Congress, first to be held under the Brezhnev-Kosygin duumvirate, made it clear that the two men prefer to concentrate on domestic issues. They gave Khrushchev full raps for "amateurish" planning, stressed gadget Communism, which, with its emphasis on consumer goods, outdoes Khrushchev's goulash Communism. Among the production goals for the new five-year plan: 18.5 million refrigerators, 30 million radios and phonographs, 27 million television sets and 2,500,000 personal autos. Kosygin's message also disclosed how widely the free-market ideas of Soviet Professor Evsei Liberman (TIME cover...
Listen to everyone and then pick whatever department you prefer. If you can't find anything of special interest, explore different fields and change. You may not get a summa, but you will get a good education. And that is about all you can expect from a 330 year old university for $1760 a year...
...plunged with 14 pages, Harper's Bazaar put his work on last month's cover, and Vogue's current issue leads off with Top Model Donyale Luna (TIME, April 1) in one of Paco's shifts, which amply displays her body (models in the U.S. prefer to wear a body stocking underneath...
...Czech student, "that the only attractive currents for our generation are coming from the Western part of the world. Here they tell us we are a new generation building a new world; then they insist we dance a folk dance two centuries old." As a consequence, Eastern European girls prefer the watusi, the jerk, and big-beat music...
...risk of slipping into a variety of ethical humanism? And if Jesus is not clearly related in some way to God, why is he a better focus of faith than Buddha, Socrates or even Albert Camus? Rather than accept this alternative, a majority of Christians would presumably prefer to stay with the traditional language of revelation at any cost. And it is not merely conservative evangelists who believe that the words and ideas of Scripture have lost neither relevance nor meaning. Suich a modern novelist as John Updike begins his poem Seven Stanzas at Easter...