Word: strives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing more, nothing less. With the aid of some semantic sophistry, Mrs. Rudolph suggests that the old cliche criticism of the Ivory Tower should be discarded; college should not try to prepare one for the real world but rather inculcate ideals for which the student-citizen-to-be will strive once he leaves the Yard for State Street, Wall Street, or Easy Street. A nice thought, perhaps; it could be worked up into a dandy epigram, but it hardly seems worth the space. An expert on eastern culture, Mrs. Rudolph would much better have devoted her energy to scoring...
Hatfield said that CRIS has no other specific plans at this time. CRIS will strive to remain in an inactive, liason role in the civil rights movement, however and will have no "official ties" with other organizations, he said...
...real estate, as in baseball or show business, most participants strive not only to be first in the standings but to let the world know about it. A pair of entrepreneurs named Alexander Di-Lorenzo, 48, and Sol Goldman, 47, are quite different. So quietly that almost nobody knew what was happening, they have become the biggest buyers of real estate in the nation's richest real estate market, New York City. Estimated gross value of their holdings: at least $200 million...
...Segmented grades" aggravate the pressure which Forster hopes the proposed system would ease. "It's much better to strive for honors than to try to go from a C plus to a B minus," he noted. An honor grade would be broader than the present...
...city has squeezed skyward for want of horizontal space, but these modern towers lack the airy quality of European cathedrals or New England spires. They strive towards heaven irreligiously. The tone of the city is very Jewish, a bit raucous, and more than a little disappointed in spite of itself. One rarely smells good luck in the bustle, and never fullfillment. But stimulation, hope, excitement, yes, if sometimes of a baleful, hopped-up variety. Manhattan seems often like an exhausted animal on No-Doze, chasing its own tail...