Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointed experts do. The City Council is powerless to layoff teachers, administrators, city workers, or cut pension costs because of unions and state law. No amount of "moral leadership" from the mayor will convince Bostonians to accept the busing plan. Obviously reform is not so simple as these people suggest...
...this animated feature from Italy. Clearly not intended for the eyes of young children, Allegro Non Troppo (fast but not too fast) aspires to do for modern audiences what Fantasia did in its day: demonstrate the state of the animator's art as it now exists and lightly suggest its many and varied possibilities as a medium for serious expression. In this regard, it is quite successful...
...strictly high school skit stuff, far below the general level of the animated material it introduces. The effort ill serves the cause of expanding the audience for serious animation beyond the cult level. Unfortunately that is still what it was in 1940, when Disney made his noble effort to suggest the rich possibilities...
...informed questions, because of their lack of familiarity with the tuition topic. Other students criticized the fact that they first see the budget after it is well along in the approval process, at a point where the budget is sufficiently final to leave no room for changes students might suggest...
...does more than contradict that intention. It would threaten the admissions practices of thousands of institutions across the country, by implying the existence of some numerically fixed standard of merit, such as grades and test scores that cannot be affected by other factors. A standard of this kind would suggest, for instance, that geographical distribution and socioeconomic background cannot be used as criteria in admissions, that Harvard cannot accept a poor black applicant from Alabama over a rich white one from New York City if the latter has a numerically better academic record. In view of the inequality of opportunity...