Word: symposiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council to study U.S. water needs and oversee conservation; he has set aside up to $275 million for research and the development of an economical system for converting sea water to fresh water. Scientists and industrialists from 58 nations will gather in Washington next week for the first international symposium on water desalinization. For hydrologists, who had to take a back seat during the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year, this burst of attention has led not to a year of their own but a decade...
...symposium on Jewish identity," Mosaic borrows a technique of magazine organization that has contributed greatly to Commentary's brilliance. It is simple: Propose a controversial topic and allow several bright and informed minds to bat it about. Jewish identity is about as original a topic as negritude, but David Levey and Yoran Ben-Porath manage to say original things about it. The other contributor, Andrew Grey-stoke, wanders aimlessly about the subject, finally admitting that he really has no firm position. Levey and Ben-Porath, conversely, attack the problem with the rigor and hard-nosedness of their chosen discipline, economics...
...example, last week he participated in a symposium at the University of San Francisco on "Men and Civilization: Control of the Mind." Playing the six Bach sonatas for solo violin opened communication, and he spoke on the relations between performer, audience, and composer...
After lunch a panel of deans, taking part in a "University Symposium...
...symposia are scheduled for Tuesday morning on "Science and Education," and "Communications in the Modern World." Tours of the Loeb Drama Center and the Yard will be given in the afternoon, followed by a symposium on "Harvard College Today," with Franklin L. Ford, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Fred L. Glimp, dean of Admissions and Financial...