Word: rare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become increasingly evident. A proliferation of paignant hardship cases has made the administrative board chafe under a strict rule that limits exemptions to those with a medically attested learning disability. And as one language professor wryly noted last week, the rule has helped induce a Cambridge epidemic of that rare disease--strephosymbolia. A subclause of the new plan wisely allows the ad board to excuse a student from the requirement if his instructor says that further language study would do him no good...
...House Committees often limit their duties to maintaining the evening grill. The Gill Committee recently concluded that a senior should not be forced to remain on-campus if he is willing to pay his share of administrative expenses. Ideally, seniors should not want to move off campus except in rare circumstances. Mather House may partially ease the problems of over-crowding, and possibly by that time the Masters will extend week-day parietals that currently inconvenience and annoy students. Until then the Houses remain for many merely a convenient place to eat and sleep...
Gardner came into the Administration when the Great Society - a phrase he himself had used three years earlier -was little more than a slogan. With a rare combination of executive ability, intellect and idealism, he transformed the great social enactments of the 89th Congress-among them Medicare and the 1965 school act-into viable administrative programs. During his tenure, HEW's spending (excluding social security and other trust programs) nearly doubled, to $13 billion; the Government, for the first time, took a major role in the financing of elementary and secondary education and, after more than a decade...
...past six years, Jacqueline Kennedy, 38, has occasionally been wearing a magnificent leopard coat made from $30,000 worth of rare skins given her by the Somali government when she was First Lady. Last month the generous Somalis presented a similar token of their esteem to Muriel Humphrey, 55, during her African jaunt with the Vice President. Alas! The intervening years have seen the passage of a law prohibiting Government officials from accepting any gift of more than "minimal value," and Muriel had to turn the furs over to the State Department. There is a possibility, said State, that Humphrey...
...unexpectedly quiet and silken musical phrase-she builds a commanding portrait of a creature who is as vulnerable as she is passionate. Vocally and dramatically restrained as her performance is, everything in it has stunning impact because it is carefully fitted into a conception that gives Carmen a rare dignity and emotional depth. "In the first act," explains Resnik, "Carmen is playful, in the second, seductive, in the third, melancholy-and in the fourth, she reaches a state of grandeur. The opera is the story of the growth of a stupendous mind in three hours...