Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approach used at Harvard during the last three years avoids the pitfalls of the Surgeon General's scheme, and should be the model for procedures across the nation...
...enough to make the most seasoned performers pack up their axes, but the Handymen-Guitarist Gerry Hahn, Violinist Mike White, Drummer Terry Clarke and Bassist Don Thompson-rallied with some surprises of their own. Turning to Handy's Scheme No. I, they erupted in a dreamy and delirious atonal free-for-all, creating a great whirl of sound, like a radio with the dial spinning at peak volume. Handy, looking like a Chinese Pope in his foot-high brocade hat, sketched high looping solos that trembled and fluttered. When it was over, the sellout crowd of 7,000 turned...
Replacing district officials, the youths marshaled 1,000 student friends, embarked on an ambitious improvement scheme. Nguyen Tan Phuoc, 19, a high school junior, began running a bulldozer on the site of the district's first public high school, which the students are building. Mai Viet Phuong, 20, organized hog co-operatives among the district's farmers. Standing in red clay soil that squished over his sandals, Luong Van Tron, 20, a law student, recalled how his pals kidded him at first about stooping to such "cheap" labor; now eight of them have joined...
...Finley arms her students with a dictionary and a Roget's Thesaurus, finds that both become thoroughly thumbed as the children seek synonyms to fit the rigid line scheme, stretching their vocabularies. To keep them searching, she bans such overworked words as fine, nice, pretty and good. Mrs. Finley is not alone in trying to teach writing in 17 hard syllables: the National Council of Teachers of English reports that haiku are turning up in classrooms throughout the country. Creating a haiku, teachers have found, expands a child's imagery, provides a quick sense of accomplishment because...
...Heir Huntington Hartford simply won't take no for an answer. For six years now he's been trying to give New York City $500,000 for an outdoor café in Central Park. And the city keeps bouncing his scheme. A couple of weeks ago, he even offered $1,000,000 to build public swimming pools in Negro areas if City Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving would accept the café. "Irresponsible philanthropy!" roared Hoving. "Hartford is trying to manipulate potentially dangerous areas for his own end, but he has failed." With a rap like that, Hunt...