Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current favorites in the quest for the G.O.P. nomination-Michigan's Governor George Romney and former Vice President Richard Nixon-the meeting at Jackson Lake Lodge was at best a disappointment, at worst a storm signal. Romney's backers wanted the Governors to issue a pronouncement of support for their man, thereby puffing some wind into the sails of his be calmed campaign. No such gust was forthcoming, despite the earnest efforts of New York's Nelson Rockefeller and Rhode Island's John Chafee. Nixon, though undoubtedly relieved by the Governors' failure to rally behind...
...definitions, are mostly young and generally thoughtful Americans who are unable to reconcile themselves to the stated values and implicit contradictions of contemporary Western society, and have become internal emigres, seeking individual liberation through means as various as drug use, total withdrawal from the economy and the quest for individual identity...
...however, the quest for funds is a matter of life and death. "The less well-endowed university," says Brewster, "is literally finding its back to the wall as it tries to be competitive in faculty, facilities and programs." Occidental President Richard C. Gilman, while confident that his own school will survive, predicts that 250 private colleges will either merge with other institutions or collapse within the next five years. Already Temple and the Universities of Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Kansas City, and Houston have quietly surrendered their status as entirely independent private schools, have become affiliated with state systems...
...Convince the Donor. The campus quest for money is so pressing that academic administrators today spend most of their time in hot pursuit of potential donors. As Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy notes, "The private university that does not choose an entrepreneur for its president is bound to be sorry." Yale has had little reason to be sorry that it chose Kingman Brewster, whom U.S. Education Commissioner Harold Howe calls "one of the most lively voices in higher education today." Although not an educational philosopher in the style of Clark Kerr or James Bryant Conant, Brewster is an outgoing activist...
...that a man of Priestley's age should be at all interested in examining Swinging Britain; the second is that his study makes such jolly good entertainment. The hero is Tom Adamson, a young Australian university professor who has come to England searching for his absentee father. His quest scrapes his sensibilities against the Big Beat, campy pubs, Socialists, Tories, rebellious kids, bad pork pies-all the things that give the old country its overwrought atmosphere. And he sheds a few colonial illusions in a bedtime encounter with a cool countess...