Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council for Undergraduate Affairs discusses in generally ear and sensible terms an issue long clouded in misunderstanding. The report's proposals for change and arification in ticket policy are logical and modest; yet perhaps just for this reason, and because the sale of tickets is an essentially unglamorous topic, the report will probably not attract a great deal of attention. Indifference to the Council's work would be regrettable; hopefully, the straight-forwardness of the report's proposals will lead to their enactment...
Though he stands on history's highest soap box, Glenn is not a man to pontificate, and the program as a whole follows his lead. It ranges across every relevant topic from aerospace medicine to the U.S.'s unmanned satellite programs. Scientists and astronauts stand up at blackboards and clearly explain just how landings are made on the earth and would be made on the surface of the moon. Deft animation explains the complicated docking procedure: hooking up a manned capsule to an orbiting rocket, providing the added power to complete a lunar voyage...
Thurs., April 26 CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Birth control is tonight's topic, with Margaret Sanger as special guest...
...attack by Cambridge Don Leavis has been topic A in London literary circles for weeks. According to Leavis, former Cambridge Don (1930-50) Snow's famed thesis on the misunderstanding between the "two cultures," science and humanities, "exhibits an utter lack of intellectual distinction and an embarrassing vulgarity of style." Leavis labeled Snow as not only "portentously ignorant," but also as a non-novelist who "can't be said to know what a novel is." And worse, Snow is a middlebrow promoter of science who "has become for a vast public on both sides of the Atlantic...
...doing so. It was Strindberg's thesis that a painting took on life only when liberated from images. In the same week, a British connoisseur sympathetic to abstract painting joined those who see its end coming. Like it or not, abstractionism remains art's liveliest topic...