Word: pursuits
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Monday, May 8 THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Newsman Sander Vanocur stalks hedonists in their natural habitats from psychedelic San Francisco to swinging London, analyzing today's new morality-or lack thereof. Among the "consultants": Ralph Ginzburg and Hugh Hefner...
...good high school grades. "Admissions people used to talk about what the average College Board score of their entering class was," notes Amherst Admissions Director Eugene Wilson. "Then it was how many Merit Scholars you got. Now the status symbol is how many Negroes you get." Although the hot pursuit is dismissed by some of the quarry as a cynical and faddish courting of color, most of those chosen are vastly pleased...
Some of the officials engaged in the pursuit of Negro scholars also have their doubts about how these students are chosen. "A great many colleges want to achieve instant Negritude," contends Benjamin McKendall, an assistant director of the College Entrance Examination Board. What they are really competing for, he argues, are "Negroes who act like white kids." Chicago Admissions Dean Charles D. O'Connell, on the other hand, is convinced that the competition for Negroes is nothing less than a sincere effort by colleges "to improve race relations and society." The colleges also benefit, he argues, since the Negro...
...objective, said King, U.S. newspapers fail to "reflect the vitality of life in the American city, which is so striking to the British newspaperman. No New York paper communicates the salt tang of life, the wit of New York, its physical and intellectual energy, its cynicism and idealism, its pursuit of profit and of scholarship...
Holy Hell. As a result, a college's pursuit of a new president frequently becomes a panicky, yearlong canvass for the right man that involves trustees, alumni, administrators, professors and even students, who are increasingly being invited to submit recommendations...