Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NCAA ruling that kept Harvard and two other Ivy Schools out of District playoffs for the NCAA World Series will be the main topic of discussion at a meeting of the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League tomorrow in New York...
...Harvard library system has a problem, it's the kind of problem most libraries would love to have. A population explosion is underway in the dusty corners of Widener and Lamont. There are nearly eight million books in the University's libraries, and they cover nearly every bizarre topic that authors have dreamed up to write about...
...theory, the most embarrassed Americans these days are the parents of student activists. Their own children - leaders in campus rebellions across the country - have been denounced by public officials who range from state legislators right up to the President of the U.S. Campus disorder is topic Among businessmen, at cocktail parties, on editorial pages - and the tone is 99% disapproving. But are the parents really unhappy...
Hands Off. The disclosures hit close to the apex of federal authority at a time when all authority is under challenge. They immediately became the major topic of conversation in Washington, from the corridors of the Capitol to Georgetown cocktail parties. Fortas' friends and fellow Democrats found little to say in his defense. Republicans generally adopted the President's hands-off attitude. Richard Nixon, whose attacks on the Supreme Court's liberal cast figured prominently in his campaign, has been assiduously mending fences with the high court of late...
Whatever became of the death of God? Three years ago it was the most fiercely debated issue in American theology (TIME cover, April 8, 1966). Scholarly journals were thick with discussions of it. No sermon topic was more popular; pulpits rang with denunciations from righteous clergymen. Today, one of the chief apostles of the movement, Thomas Altizer, is quietly teaching English on Long Island. The journals and sermons have turned to other themes. Was it just a passing theological fad? A small idea blown out of proportion by pulpit and press? Or a real cri de coeur, saying something valid...