Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LIFE remains the leader in ad revenue with a 1965 estimate of better than $163 million, a slight gain over the year before. TIME is likely to displace Look for second place with $80 million, a 15% increase over 1964. Look is up 5% with $79.4 million. Reader's Digest follows with $65.8 million, a 14% gain...
Davidson now seems to be working toward a synthesis. There was a tonality in most of the numbers. But its emphasis was slight enough so that melodic improvisations were not heard solely in relation to the key--or chord movement--as they are in conventional jazz. The instruments played together, unlike last year when they would start and end together but go off in their own rhythmical directions in the middle. Still, there was no "beat," and I don't think I noticed any foot tapping in the audience. Although Davidson's compositions could hardly be called tuneful, there were...
...Wilcox insists that these and other questions must be ironed out "as we look at individual courses and specific situations." His mind works on an operational level. He avoids definitions, generalizations, sweeping conclusions and philosophies of education. At a vague abstraction his brows furrow, a slight smile forms at the corners of his mouth. "You've got to talk about concrete situations", he says brusquely. "I don't believe there's any one flat philosophy that can serve everyone best. I think people sought to be given options...
...Spartacus-- "nothing too arty or actionless." Schlesinger's Kennedy is instinctively broadminded; he actually opposed the Bay of Pigs, Schlesinger thinks. Where Sorensen never mentions Adlai Stevenson's name without irritation, Schlesinger sees in Kennedy a bit of an old Stevensonian. Though their personal relations were marred by "a slight tinge of mutual exasperation," Kennedy had "an essential respect and liking for Stevenson," and politically they were almost soul brothers...
...percentage of students planning millitary service immediately after Harvard has dropped from 14 per cent in 1962 to 8 per cent in 1965. Beecher said. This year, Beecher expects a slight rise in enlistments; students who know they do not want to go to graduate school are apt to enlist to avoid being drafted...