Word: revamped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first act as president was to set up a commission to revamp the schizophrenic admission policy of Michigan State. The admissions committee has previously sought a combination of National Merit Scholarship winners and rural high school graduates...
...notion as bourgeois sentiment. Nor did her flamboyant Afro coiffure lend itself to the proper image of an austere Communist. And her association with a spoiled playboy who had Communist connections is the stuff of an Irving Wallace novel. So what gives? Are the Communists using Miss Davis to revamp their dreary image? Is Angela using the Communists and the sensationalist media to put us all on? Or beneath all those academic trappings, is Prof. Davis simply a crazy, mixed-up broad...
...moment, though, the courts will have to revamp themselves rather than the law. The traditional answer is more judgeships. But too many judges still get their jobs on the basis of party loyalty, not judicial skill. Beyond that, new judges often make surprisingly little difference. Last year New York City added 20 new criminal-court judges -and the courts are more clogged than ever...
While Dean May's Curriculum Reform Committees are still busy discussing educational change, the Harvard New College Group (NCG) has released a paper containing proposals to completely revamp Harvard's educational system...
Microbiologist Barry Commoner (TIME cover, Feb. 2) pleads for a complete overhaul of the "progress through technology" ethic. He calculates that the U.S. must completely revamp as much as one-third of its productive system-farming, mining, papermaking and fossil-fuel power generation, for example -to repair damage already done to the ecological system. Commoner figures that not only would the cost be high, but that production itself would suffer in the process. Most economists, on the other hand, contend that total economic output would hardly be changed, and they scoff at the idea that growth itself is the real...