Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government and the John F. Kennedy Library Corporation will today take title to the MBTA's Bennett Street train yards--the future site of the Kennedy Library...
...filth, surly attitude of so many passenger-train employees (from ticket agents to dining-car waiters), the nonfunctioning of schedules, and the unwillingness of management to work with local and state communities to improve this mess, suggest that the railroads should be forced to sell their passenger service to market-oriented entrepreneurs, or begin to show that they can provide this needed utility. I hope that there will be new efforts and renewed vigor in tackling the problems of America's third great passenger system...
...from his pocket to show that his popularity has begun an upswing after a long decline, Harold Wilson's notices are dominated by those embarrassing cartoons. The most telling one, run in the Daily Mail, was a biting play on names, involving Wilson and Britain's Great Train Robber Charles Wilson, who was captured in Quebec two weeks ago. The cartoon showed two trusties chatting outside Robber Wilson's jail cell: "Like the proverb says, Fingers, you can fool some of the people some of the time-but having a name like Wilson makes it difficult...
...there has been one steady trend at Harvard College in recent years, it has been the increase in academic specialization. Pre-professionalism has gone hand in hand with Harvard's policy of expanding its graduate schools in order to train more instructors. It is admirable that Harvard should produce more teachers, and it is understandable (although not particularly beneficial to socety as a whole) that professors wish to train them to perpetuate their own disciplines and ethics among students. But the large majority of undergraduates and graduate students do not end up as teachers, and the Faculty should be more...
...mirrors refracting all facets of her thwarted ego. One student is to become an intellectual, another to cultivate siren calls of the flesh, still another to be an actress. In actuality, one girl-inspired by Miss Brodie to go help Franco's forces-dies in Spain when her train is bombed, while another humiliatingly ends up in the bed of a boorish art instructor who has an unrequited yen for Miss Brodie. Eventually, poor Miss Brodie is denounced to the headmistress by one of her cliquish girls, Amy Taubin, as a Fascist and dismissed-a melodramatic device so archaic...