Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Adenauer's college days became a topic of national discussion. Addressing a nostalgic reunion of alte Herren (old grads,) the Chancellor defended Germany's tradition of fraternities, which are widely accused of fostering authoritarianism. Though at 87 Adenauer has seen most if not all of his old fraternity classmates die, he is still a loyal member of Arminia* (motto: True! Free...
David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology, will speak this afternoon in the Behavioral Science Lecture Series on the topic "A Psychologist Looks at Economic Development." He will speak in Burr...
...Also Topic A. In earlier O'Hara, Elizabeth's affair might have destroyed her marriage. Now older and increasingly concerned with the final assessments of a lifetime, O'Hara sends Elizabeth back to her husband. Forced to accept the fact that her husband and her marriage are not what she dreamed of making them, she finds that they are both a lot stronger than she thought...
Chronicling Elizabeth's difficult progress, O'Hara unhappily relies on what is bad about his past writing as well as on what is good. Sex is too often not only Topic A, but also Topics B and C as well. His preoccupation with small-town sociology and the lives of secondary characters sometimes leads him to freight his dialogue with extra information until it sounds like a young playwright's first act. The experiment may be merely an attempt to put old wine into a slightly new bottle. It is not vintage O'Hara...
...with machines, which cost less than people over the long haul, are more productive and do not take coffee breaks or join labor unions. In the board rooms and at the clubs, today's businessman finds it hard to get his mind-or his conversation-away from topic A: automation. Among automation's side products are 4,000.000 unemployed-5.7% of the labor force. Automated elevators, automated stockroom machinery, automated steel mills and countless other devices are turning the underskilled and the undereducated into unemployables. and sending their more gifted fellows job hunting...