Word: supplementals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty's decision to turn the hitherto mandatory course on Estate Planning into an elective may indicate a changing emphasis in favor of more theoretical courses, to supplement the highly technical ones already available, and in favor of greater choice in the selection of courses...
...vaunted discipline is cracking. Cadres are feeding themselves while their subordinates starve. The result is a crisis in public morale. Reports Alsop: "In 1959, not one [refugee] charged any dishonesty to the Communist cadres. [They] were downright astonished by the suggestion that the cadres might use their authority to supplement thair rations illegally. 'They live as we live ..." This time, in sharp contrast, not a single refugee, whether from town or country, failed to charge the cadres with habitual pilfering." Communist cadres were the only fat Chinese nowadays, several Hong Kong refugees told him bitterly...
...necessary abbreviation that the Times Literary Supplement finds "horrid" because it smacks of Lenin's New Economic Policy), for all its faults, certainly is not. The format and typography announce a complete break with the past. The text is set in prose paragraphs, with chapter and verse numbers, those arbitrary designations placed parenthetically in the margins. The type face, mirabile dictu, is both handsome and legible--a feat unmatched in bibles since the first edition of Johannes Guttenberg...
...nine House committee chairmen will convene for the second time tonight in a series of meetings that may be a prelude to an interhouse-type organization to supplement or replace the Student Council...
Overseas, there is widespread concern. The Times Literary Supplement has warned stiffly, if somewhat forlornly, that "Atropos must be left in no doubt that the snap of these abhorred shears will be disagreeably audible in all seven continents." But Paul H. Buck is made of sterner stuff, and his Annual Report for 1959-60 echoes the language of that awesome moralist, Samuel Johnson ("The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time"). "Careful assessment of the Library's needs," Buck writes tonelessly, "indicated that other calls upon unrestricted money deserved a higher priority...