Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pittsburgh, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles and Milwaukee; he also sold Hearst's International News Service to United Press. Earlier this year, he put to death Hearst's unprofitable Sunday supplement, the American Weekly. "Personally," said Berlin, "I would sell anything but the wife and children if the proper price were offered...
Fickle Readership. What probably spared the Mirror so long was that Berlin could not get the proper price. Several years ago the paper was offered to Publisher Samuel Newhouse, whose appetite for new "properties," as he calls them, is inexhaustible. Newhouse would not even bid on a paper that was losing $2,000,000 a year. The Mirror simply had nothing to sell that others were not selling better. TV had usurped its entertainment function. And even sex, that once dependable tabloid ware, was not so marketable any more. Contemporary fiction and the new girlie magazines did the job more...
...story traces the acrobatics of an oh so eighteenth century count with a weakness for a winsom lady-in-waiting. Matters are confused considerably by the marked maid's dashing fiancee, Figaro, and inevitably by the lascivious count's peppery countess. When the bedclothes settle, the audience finds the proper pairs in the proper places, and a host of villagers send the couples merrily on their connubial ways...
These are strong words. Were Conant's suggestions to be taken seriously, they could touch off a faculty controversy about what constitutes a proper academic program that would make the fight between academicians and educators look like a high-school debate. Though Conant alludes to the well known sensitivity of the academic establishment to curriculum changes, he hardly reckons with the reaction his proposals could arouse...
...Education of American Teacrers plays down the importance of such "fifth year" programs, and "is actually concerned with the big universities [which give undergraduate training in education]; Indiana, for example, trains more teachers in a year than all the M.A.T. programs in the country." Conant believes that a proper four-year bachelor of arts program--complete with courses in education and practice teaching--should be sufficient for elementary and high school teachers...