Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIFTY years after the Bolshevik revolution, the Russians finally achieved the two-day weekend. With it, they raised a problem long ago solved by Americans: what to do with the extra day. Naturally the Soviets seek a Marxist-Leninist solution. "We have nothing against your supermarkets and all your material facilities for leisure time," says Sergei Vishnevsky, a Pravda editor with long experience in the U.S. "But they have to be combined with high standards of culture, which your middle classes do not have. Material facilities are dead without the supreme blessing of culture...
...Cultural Mafia, proving the African link is less important than promoting greater understanding and tolerance of the special qualities of ghetto culture. Baratz, for example, argues that such well-intentioned programs as Head Start are doomed to failure because they implicitly seek to rob the Negro child of his uniqueness and absorb him into an alien white culture. "We have to meet the Negro in his world," he says, "explore his ghetto for its strengths, and understand the processes whereby this seemingly wicked environment sustains a viable culture." White America must not only learn to appreciate that culture, he argues...
...during World War II, industry is compensating for the shortage of men by hiring women, including housewives who seek part-time jobs. Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. offers 25-hour work weeks within which keypunch operators can almost select their own hours. St. Alexius Hospital in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village has set up a nursery where working mothers can leave preschool children during...
...Navy notified these students on Wednesday that there would be no NROTC freshman class at Harvard next year and advised them to seek admission at another NROTC institution...
Having virtually clinched a share of the EITA title with only two matches remaining in the season, Harvard's tennis team goes to M.I.T. this weekend to seek another title that has eluded it for four years--the New England championship...