Word: saving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finding how utterly disorienting it was to work out of the right-hand seat. After a day of laboriously scanning Loch Ness for the Great Orm, I sat down with a British newspaper and friend to read "Police Arrest 179 at Harvard." It might have been any other school, save for the comparatively big play and for a few proper nouns. I had often been instructed not to use the word "campus" in connection with Harvard, for Harvard was not supposed to have a campus. But here it was being used as freely as if the story were about Berkeley...
...Hall), thus enabling you to admit every student who came on Monday and thensome. It is common form, at this second meeting, to express contempt for the building's impersonal architecture and the room's awesome size. No explanation is required for the decision to accept all your applicants, save to say you found choosing among them impossible...
Another trademark of the non-initiate, to be avoided at all costs, is the simple breakdown of reading into the categories "Required" and "Supplementary." Better by far is a straight alphabetical listing with no further classification. The list should of course be lengthy, but it is always necessary to save certain critical works for passing reference during lecture. [See "Passing Reference...
money to Cleveland, PACE flatly told the city's taxpayers that they would have to come up with $56 million themselves to save their schools...
...appeared before the education subcommittee again and urged them to send more money into the cities' vocation education programs. And less than six weeks ago, Calkins--serving as chairman of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education--hit the same theme saying that job training classes in schools would save the country millions of dollars that it now spends on remedial training for unemployable adults...