Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-track scheme has paid off. Despite the steady loss of better-prepared white students, College Entrance Examination Board scores have risen each year since 1956 by more than the national average. On three national high school achievement tests, Washington students have raised their position relative to the rest of the U.S. by 14 percentile points. Hansen is still not satisfied. Beginning this year, honor students must take 16½ required annual units of work to graduate, including four years of foreign language, three of math, three of science. Next year the high school day will be lengthened...
Having made his proposal, Vogel stands listening for the fall of his own head, but the captain agrees to the scheme. Vogel shores up his shaky position by offering to act as intermediary between the village peasants, who are hiding, and the soldiers. The peasants are oxen, the soldiers wolves; Author Pick obviously intends his hero's predicament to represent that of humanity caught in a world of mindless placidity and meaningless violence...
...rule of the genre to which it aspires to belong: the rule that says that no character may be endowed with the ability to feel profound and communicable pain. The picturesque discomfiture and knavery that are familiar and amusing in Congreve and Gay are gradually, in Mr. Mayer's scheme, to be exposed as the sort of deep corruption which only the most sombre tragedy will generally attempt to plumb. The diamond-pointed cutting-tools of the Age of Wit are to be used to lay bare the dark reality of metaphysical evil. Think of Congreve trying to be Dostoevsky...
Next night at a formal banquet, Nkrumah, unworried by any possible inconsistency, turned to Macmillan and voiced the hope that Britain "will consider favorably any request for further assistance that we may make in the future, particularly in connection with the Volta River project," a $170 million hydroelectric scheme for which Nkrumah would like Britain to lend Ghana half the money. Macmillan's bland response: Britain would follow Ghana's economic needs "with sympathetic interest." He added an oblique comment on Nkrumah's performance the day before: "If we cannot cooperate, but sit down in opposite camps...
...sending up to 20 scholars at a time to the 40-room villa, which Berenson called "a library with living rooms attached," and there let them muse amid the old man's 50,000 books, his Renaissance paintings, fastidious furnishings and vast formal gardens. But carrying out the scheme, which may include endowment of a new Harvard chair, will take another...