Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Medical Association's annual meeting in Chicago last week, when the doctors got around to discussing medicine instead of medicare, topic A was the danger of smoking. Physicians already familiar with tobacco's implication in the growing incidence of lung cancer were startled to hear that they had been worrying about one of the least of tobacco-caused troubles. Lung cancer brought on by cigarette smoking, reported the American Cancer Society's chief research statistician. Dr. Edward Cuyler Hammond, is "relatively unimportant'' compared with the damage tobacco does in a variety of other ways...
...Spring brought the Godkin Lectures, given this year by Nelson Rockefeller, New York's White-House hopeful governor. Rockefeller's topic was "The Future of Federalism"; the series of lectures he gave on it has been reprinted in a moderately successful book. Rockefeller aired many of the backbone positions of his platform in the Godkin lectures -- his political speeches since then have returned continually to phrases and arguments first heard last winter in Sanders Theatre...
...Arthur Kopit. An evening of surrealistic foolery on the topic of why Mom is a witch. Goofy, oomphy Barbara Harris is the Lolita of off Broadway...
...election in 22 states* are generally empowered to propose education bills to state legislatures and to enforce minimum standards for otherwise autonomous local boards. In California this year, the end of an unimaginative 17-year incumbency provided an opportunity for candidates and backers to debate that currently feverish topic, the shortcomings of public education, and also prompted them to offer remedies. Nine candidates entered the free...
...chief purposes of History courses is to teach students what happened over a fairly long period, 100 years or so. Yet a good paper entails concentrating on a very limited topic over a very short time. Only a comprehensive final examination can require students to integrate the whole range of facts in the course. It is not surprising that some of the hardiest supporters of examinations come from the History Department...