Word: threads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the Educational Policies Commission issued a 21-page pamphlet, The Central Purpose of American Education, that puts aside vagueness and triviality. Said the 19-member* commission: "The purpose which runs through and strengthens all other educational purposes-the common thread of education-is the development of the ability to think...
...have only a certain local notoriety in Rome. Even the impersonator of Marianne Moore adds very little interest for the American viewer. Although, judging from Ekberg and Barker, they play themselves quite well, these guest celebrities take up a great deal of screen time and only contribute a further thread of decadence to a film already tangled with them...
Here, another thread enters the skein--the Program. True, anyone who had suggested in 1956 that the Program would change the Freshman year should most likely have had his head examined. But it went this way: the Program raised money for three new Houses. By 1960, one and a half were built or building, but the next one was temporarily stalled by a flap over whether Harvard could build on the MTA yards. Bundy and the Masters, convinced that $7 million would be better spent on something besides a new House, started diversionary ploys...
Students who--perhaps from a streak of latent masochism--find it amusing to thread their way through the intricacies of "Rules Relating to College Studies" may have discovered that "all Honors candidates during their last two years may petition to enroll for units of independent studies for ungraded credit.'" Those who make this find should congratulate themselves as perceptive readers; the clause is decently buried under six paragraphs on tutorial for credit and senior theses...
...while, the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission seemed to be the most unpopular top-level job in Washington: the AEC chairman must not only possess considerable administrative ability, along with scientific and technological know-how, but he must also be able to thread his way through highly emotional issues while keeping the U.S. on a straight, or at least a safe, nuclear course...