Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better known author of this tract is Richard Scammon, former director of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, now head of the Electronics Research Center in Washington. His partner is Ben Wattenberg, a former aide to President Johnson, and now a speech-writer for Hubert Humphrey. The heart of the Scammon-Wattenberg thesis is the simple truth that the center is the only position of political power. To win an election, a candidate "must capture the center ground of an election battlefield." The center itself shifts with the major issues of the day, but any candidate who is perceived...
...actor's ability to turn his towering physique to dramatic effect. As the puppet villain in Petrouchka, he presents the quaint spectacle of a black performing in blackface and shows a notable gift for deadpan comedy. His terrorizing, primitive presence as Death in Kurt Jooss's antiwar tract, The Green Table, dominates the stage and sends chills through even a sophisticated dance audience...
...closing, which occurred three weeks ago, is directly related to Harvard's purchase of the tract of land located on the corner of Howard and River Streets last September. The land is slated to be used for the construction of low-income housing...
...Social Oasis. Murphy's father left him a 60-acre tract on Big Sur, and in 1962, Esalen Institute opened. "We only knew that a forum was needed for all these new ideas," Murphy said. "We had no idea where it would all lead to. We didn't care." The statement is characteristic of the part of the human potentials movement that Esalen represents. It and its many imitators are analogous to the so-called "free university," which eliminates the traditional boundaries between students and faculty, one academic discipline and another, the cognitive (knowing) process and the affective...
...land was bought recently by Harvard, though the price paid for the tract and its actual acreage are classified information according to Moulton...