Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present system assigns rank the same way Phi Beta Kappa picks out students for possible election. An "A" is worth 12 points, and the scale goes down from there -- 11 points for an A-minus, 10 points for a B-plus, 9 points...
...asks for the first major Med School curriculum change since the Flaxner report was released. It suggests cutting the workload, offering many new courses, and beginning small-group teaching on a large scale. For the first time, students could choose a number of courses for themselves...
Leonard Bernstein explains "What Is a Mode?" as he conducts the season's premiere concert. A mode is a scale, and for illustration the orchestra will play Debussy's Fetes, the Polonaise from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and the Danzon from Bernstein's ballet Fancy Free...
...investigation would be committed to making its own judgments and offering its best reasoned opinions-just as the Warren Commission did-in crucial areas where no firm facts exist. Thus, lacking any new evidence, there seems little valid excuse for so dramatic a development as another full-scale inquiry...
...There is no conceivable human situation," says Dr. Yolles, "which is unendurable or hopeless enough to drive a healthy man to death-neither mental anguish nor concentration camp torture nor bankruptcy." Viewing the suicidal tendency as a kind of mental illness, Yolles predicts that attacking it on a national scale will lower the U.S. suicide rate in a few years...