Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slovak, presented the scheme a year ago when he ousted from power President and Party Boss Antonin Novotny, a Czech. Historically, the more bucolic Slovaks have felt oppressed by the urbanized and sophisticated Czechs, who outnumber them by nearly 3 to 1. Hoping to enhance his support at home, Dubček proposed self-rule as a means of alleviating the old Slovak grievances. At first, the Soviets, who earlier had threatened to break off Slovakia and incorporate it into the Soviet Union, opposed the federal system. They changed their minds when they realized that the reorganization would provide...
...involvement with problems of Cambridge and Boston. The Dunlop Report last spring recommended that the dean of the Faculty set up new planning machinery and take a stronger hand in determining which departments grow fastest. The Faculty will probably consider this proposal in the spring but a more comprehensive scheme like the constitutional reform Galbraith proposes may be in order...
...accomplice, Ruth Eisemann Schier, 26, a linguist and graduate student at the University of Miami's Marine Science Institute. She met Krist, an escaped convict working at the institute under the alias George Deacon, during a student-faculty cruise to Bermuda in September. He drew her into his scheme. As Krist's estranged wife recalled last week: "Gary doesn't want to lead a mediocre life...
Similarly, De Gaulle held out to France's workers the vision of a new economic order. In it they would share in both the management and profits of their plants. That scheme, which De Gaulle calls participation, remains nothing more than a promise, partly because neither workers nor their patrons think it a very sound idea. Meanwhile, the workers have seen the raises they won as a result of last spring's strikes largely consumed by inflation...
...work-which is one reason why he is so often the favorite composer of mathematicians and scientists. But his music also throbs with a living pulse; his rhythms and harmonic modulations, however controlled, evolve with a seeming spontaneity. His endlessly inventive melodies, however neatly they fit into a scheme, rise and fall and intertwine with a lyrical life of their own. The most solid of his constructions are nevertheless charged with energy and intensity. And as Robert Shaw points out, his lines serve not only to fill in the structure but also to define thoughts or emotions: "Counterpoint...