Word: selections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know that it is hard to stay at work here," Lowell wrote. "It is harder to lie down under fire than charge at a greater risk. But if it is one's duty it must be done, and the soldier does not select his duty. He does what is considered best for the contingeent as a whole...
...Selected Facts. What flaws this analysis of the Viet Nam tragedy is the fact that it was written before Johnson's recent abdication-an event that might have balanced some of Wicker's more emotional judgments. That is not the only omission in what Wicker candidly calls an "imaginative reconstruction" of two tragic presidencies. Author of six published novels, Wicker is too prone to select the facts that intensify his drama. He scarcely mentions Kennedy's exciting effect on the national mood and his great coup in the Cuban missile crisis. Wicker almost totally overlooks at least...
Financial constraints probably make it impossible to provide such experienced teachers and small sections for all freshmen, but the principle of centering writing courses on a genre or a general theme could be adapted to the whole course. If students could select the type of course they wanted, much of the present psychological dissatisfaction would be eliminated...
...catch, of course, is that the Premier is appointed by the President. There is a widespread conviction in France that De Gaulle will never select anyone but a Gaullist to serve as head of government. If De Gaulle should resign and new presidential elections were held, the situation would be completely different. As a result, speculation about France's political future inevitably centers on who might win the presidency après De Gaulle. Mitterrand, while effective with other politicians, has a slightly tarnished "old pol" image among French voters. Similarly, the candidates from the right?Pompidou, Giscard d'Estaing?...
...city's board of education and the help of a $59,000 planning grant from the Ford Foundation, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment was set up last summer. Local parents elected a committee to run the eight schools in the project and were given power to select principals, allocate funds, and set educational goals and standards. The city board of education supposedly retained only the supervisory authority, but from the start, there were quarrels over divisions of responsibility. School-board officers feared that the committee had been taken over by Black Power advocates. White teachers balked at accepting...