Word: sidetrack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having people actually do things, rather than just read about them, has been anathema around here for quite awhile. The usual argument against 'practical' courses asserts that Harvard is a liberal arts College and that therefore mere 'technical training' would sidetrack students from their main educational concerns, sullying the snowy white linen of pure scholarship...
...cost her 20 years to achieve it, is embodied in Ship of Fools-a book that is magnificently ingenious but coldly calculated, loveless and finally unbelievable. It is Katherine Anne Porter's tragedy that at the climax of her creative life, she shunted herself onto a sidetrack and went careering to a dead...
...days without food in freezing winter weather after their plane crashed in Canada. Even more ingenious were Viryl and Laura Scott, who in 1959 set off with their six children on an excursion into the Grand Canyon, foolishly turned off the main road onto a little-used sidetrack. There the car broke down. They were 50 miles from the nearest town, and the temperature was 124°. With something like a genius for self-preservation, the Scotts drank the water from their car radiator, cut up blankets to make an S O S sign, dipped a tire in engine...
...while, moderate leaders dozed complacently. When the time came, they felt certain, they could easily sidetrack the Goldwater movement and, as they had so often in the past, nominate one of their own for President. As the 1964 campaign began, only Nelson Rockefeller, his appeal tarnished by his divorce and remarriage, was actively fighting...
...keep out Red China, the regime that stands formally condemned by the U.N. as an aggressor. Once again, the Communist nations and some neutrals are urging Peking's admission-though the sincerity of their efforts is in some doubt. Where once the U.S. could muster enough votes to sidetrack the matter from year to year, this time the U.N.'s new members, as well as the U.S.'s own allies, insisted on the debate-and indeed the U.S. position was strong enough to bear discussion. The expected conclusion: despite all the talk. Red China will be kept...