Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teach a non-credit experimental flying course twice weekly after school hours. School officials were surprised when 70 kids tried to enroll even though Hazelwood could handle only eleven. One was a dropout who begged to be readmitted when he heard about the course, soon began carrying his slide-rule flight computer around school, proudly solving math problems for friends. He got his high school diploma...
...member traveling company performed it for the first time in Rome. The staging, obviously, was an unrealistic but no less gripping realization of Schoenberg's directions. The orgy scene was a stylized ballet danced against a crazy-quilt backdrop of emotionally escalating designs beamed from a dozen slide projectors. The tragic conflict between Moses-who, unable to articulate his spiritual vision, symbolically chants rather than sings his role-and the worldly, silver-tongued Aaron was portrayed with spare, stabbing precision. Schoenberg's monumental, jaggedly atonal score was a sometimes overly complex but always searing testament to the spiritual...
...rarely associates M.I.T. with any activity more strenuous than manipulating a slide rule. But Tech has the best basketball team in its history this year and will give Harvard plenty of trouble when they meet at 8:15 tonight in Rockwell Cage...
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...slide, of course, is not what the U.S. Government's economic managers have been worrying about in 1965; they have been pursuing a strongly expansionist policy. They carried out the second stage of a two-stage income-tax cut, thus giving consumers $11.5 billion more to spend and corporations $3 billion more to invest. In addition, they put through a long-overdue reduction in excise taxes, slicing $1.5 billion this year and another $1.5 billion in the year beginning Jan. 1. In an application of the Keynesian argument that an economy is likely to grow best when the government pumps...