Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this year. By the end of 1967, Podhoretz expects to break even. Aimed originally at New York's intellectual community, Commentary now reaches across the country and is widely read in Washington. To his surprise, Podhoretz is courted by politicians; after a four-hour session with President Johnson, he emerged with an impression typical of his magazine's contrariness. "I don't like the substance of all of L.B.J.'s policies," said Podhoretz. "But I certainly like his style...
...their own liking. They experience very little of the pressure of degree requirements, lecture courses, student teachings, and tutorials that face many of the one-year students who will soon confront the alarming realities of the lower schools, and for whom the year at Harvard represents a fantastic cram session that must equip them for their first few years of teaching. And so it is not surprising that it is the one-year people who appraise the situation as being acute, who want things changed now, even though they may not benefit from the change. They do not have...
...School, volunteered to help design the program late last year. The summer session will be watched closely at the School to see whether "we can put the Bostons and the Harvards together," George Thomas, associate in Education, and director of the program, said yesterday...
Midway through the six-hour session, the class adjourns to the dining room for sandwiches and coffee and Piatigorsky's reminiscences from nearly 50 years of concertizing. When a pupil complains about preperformance jitters, he confides that he himself has found no easy remedy: "I try looking in the mirror and saying 'You're the greatest cellist in the world.' " But alas, he adds sadly, "I don't believe me." Or he will tell of the evening he dined with Amateur Fiddler Albert Einstein...
...points in the newest campus craze, "The Hunt," a game patterned on The Tenth Victim. As in the movie, players are divided into "hunters," who are given the names of their prey, and "victims," who are simply notified that they are on someone's assassination list. One session of the hunt goes on for four days; then the directors assay the kills, award one point if the kill was technically feasible and actually was carried out, two points, if the kill was technically brilliant. However, if the hunter is killed by his victim, he loses one point...