Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small towns in the Transvaal look just like the Midwest, complete with Kentucky Fried Chicken and Burger King. It looks like home, the part of South Africa where the white population lives--so peaceful, so comfortable and modern. I find it easy to relax, to forget what this standard of living is built...
...Kirkland House Drama Society's current production of Frank Loesser's How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, an early-'60s paean to the knucklehead glory of girl-watching and "getting ahead," recreates the innocence of that time with an enjoyable, if sometimes unfocused, energy. Moving through the standard '60s-musical formula of boy-meets-girl, boy-and-girl-fall-in-love, boy-and-girl-fall-out-of-love, and boy-beats-world-and-marries-girl -- all to the accompaniment of Loesser's slick score -- the Kirkland House cast manages to create a fun evening in the face...
...priority in order to enhance their skills in those areas most needed to perform in an academic setting," Chafin says. Most pressing, he notes, reflecting on the state of the department when he arrived, was the need for supervisory training. Not, he explains, that the supervisors were operating below standard, but that they had received no formal training for supervisory positions...
...loose-knit, often warring group of tribes speaking different dialects of a common language, the Celts occupied a territory that spread from Ireland to the edges of the Black Sea. Although they were avid hunters, they set a standard of orderly farming and cattle raising that has left its impact on European agriculture to this day. They were also expert ironsmiths who fabricated plowshares, scythes and even a primitive reaper two millenniums before Cyrus McCormick. They cut roads through the forests, sometimes paved them with timber and stone and rumbled over them in carriages that had wheels rimmed with iron...
...council also yesterday heard David C. McClelland '69, professor of Psychology, discuss the correlation between standard measurements of academic achievement like grade point average and achievement tests and performance five or ten years after graduation from college or graduate school...