Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother worked as a waitress, a telephone operator and a dime-a-dance hostess until her marriage to a "cat-skinner"-the operator of Caterpillar tractors on Government road projects. McKuen was hauled from one construction site to another throughout the West and Northwest until, at age eleven, he split from his family and spent four years drifting in and out of small Western towns. He took odd jobs: rod man on a survey crew, plowman, cowboy...
...radical post-war avant-grade split into those wishing to fulfill the logic of dense twelve-tone organization, represented by such composers as Milton Babbitt and Pierre Boulez, and those desiring to create music with the least possible constraints, represented by Cage and Stockhausen. The latter reacted against the old ghosts of Kingsor and Vienna, Wagner and Schoenberg himself. The new principle was that the legitimacy of music flows simply from the auditor's effort to feel sheer sounds. Music is the sensitized constancy of the world's masses. To borrow a term from language studies, music is mimetic...
Since the GBL was created in 1953, the Crimson nine has dominated the league with ten championship teams. Last year, Harvard split its six games and slipped to fifth place in the standings, but this season the GBL triumphs have been the few bright spots of the baseball team's 11-8 overall record...
...most depressing aspect of many campus disorders is what they reveal not about students but about professors. The academics are so divided that some are resisting desirable reforms while others are joining student rebels in disrupting their own universities. Worse, the faculty split reflects a division that afflicts intellectuals far beyond the campus. Never before have U.S. intellectuals enjoyed such affluence and celebrity, yet never before have they so vilified one another for "complicity with the Establishment." To hear some intellectuals tell it, the U.S. has entered a new period of anti-intellectualism-fomented by intellectuals themselves...
...reason for the split is that there are really two kinds of intellectuals today: 1) the physical scientists and many (if not all) social scientists, who tend to be reasonably well satisfied with their inside roles in government, industry and the universities, and 2) the philosophers and literary intellectuals, who feel more or less like outsiders. This is basically the problem of the "two cultures" described by C. P. Snow. At the same time, many intellectuals are defecting from the first group and joining the second...