Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three major U.S. cities last week there were further signs that the nation is pretty well fed up with the philosophy of education that has dominated the public schools for the last three decades. The theme in all three: the growing need to stress not the social but the intellectual in education...
...contented and to have a feeling of success. We thought this could best be assured by de-emphasizing standards, competition and grades, by broadening the curriculum and by eliminating the distinction between curricular and extracurricular activities . . . Today the mood of the people has changed. There is a new stress on values and standards, on hard work and more firm adult discipline . . . There is stress on the re-establishment of priorities in education...
...after each movement; in the case of the Mozart Quartet, the original piece takes about 30 minutes, the interludes 17 minutes. Their effect is like looking at a painting, then watching a series of lantern slides of different portions of the painting, stripped of minor embellishments and arranged to stress the picture's harmonies and tensions...
...Pacific Northwest, which is crying for more cheap electricity, a big bloc of voters believes that only the Government can afford the big dams the region wants. In the 1956 elections, the Republicans took a beating because of their partnership policy and stress on private power. Yet last week the Northwest was up in arms over a Federal Power Commission recommendation for a huge dam that probably only the Government could build. Reason: it would kill the fish Northwesterners love as much as kilowatts...
...Across the Street." The company everyone is watching is what Beech calls the "boys across the street." Cessna's President Dwane Wallace has built a young, eager outfit with plenty of stress on foresight and imagination. At Beech, less than half the executives are pilots; at Cessna, everyone down to middle-management level knows how to fly as well as sell...