Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formed and fashioned by the schools, where teen-agers spend half of their waking hours. If Lyndon Johnson succeeds in getting "every child the best education the nation can provide," the schools' responsibility will grow ever greater. And by and large the pattern works: in the mid-1960s, smarter, subtler and more sophisticated kids are pouring into and out of more expert, exacting and experimental schools...
Even an old-math mind can roughly multiply millions of teen-agers by the factor of better-trained intelligence and surmise that the next generations of Americans will look a lot smarter than the past. It will have to; a recent N.E.A. publication notes that "the first doubling of knowledge occurred in 1750, the second in 1900, the third in 1950, and the fourth only ten years later." The fifth and sixth, if the plot line holds its course, are close at hand. Teen-agers today do not think of themselves as "knights in shining chinos" riding forth on rockets...
These harsh lessons have not been lost on the Soviets, who have learned the truth of the oldest Middle Eastern proverb: "You can't buy an Arab; only rent him." As a result, the Russians are becoming more selective in their aid, smarter in getting more for their money. In Iran they are collaborating in sensible, largely unpolitical, neighborly ventures: planning dams on their common border, stocking the Caspian Sea, which the two countries share, with sturgeon to keep the caviar flowing. In Turkey, too, they have proposed a joint border hydroelectric project. But for all their frustrations...
...should the students want to know? Well, PRL is the closest thing Harvard has to a how-smart-are-you index, and because of that it is one of the College's greatest status symbols. Does ranking first in your class at Exeter make you smarter than a science type who gets a bunch of 800 board scores? It's hard to say. PRL is Harvard's answer to such questions; it is a tidy composite of your high school academic achievements and what the College knows of your aptitude...
...performed ceremonial functions, inherited the more powerful of Khrushchev's jobs and the one that has been traditionally the key to Soviet power: the secretaryship of the Communist Party. Kosygin, a trained economist and business-minded technician who has had little political experience but may just be the smarter and deeper of the two, inherited the premiership. Both had been known as Khrushchev's prot...