Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the trend is not religious. The fact is that some Israeli parents are fed up with the condition of the public schools. First of all, they are divided into ideological categories-labor, religious and general. Even first-graders are organized into special youth groups sponsored by the various political parties. More important, many schools are hopelessly overcrowded, with some operating on three shifts. Many cannot serve the hot meals that the mission schools do; nor can all of them afford bus transportation or supervised play. Far from being free, high-school tuitions are some 75% higher than...
...approximate count of the female invasion on weekdays during the deleted hours one and four, is particularly revealing. During the past week or so, the average number of girls infesting Eliot, Lowell, and Kirkland per weekday was four, three, and three respectively. Even when considering fluctuations, such as the trend upwards on Fridays, the figure seldom exceeded ten and never twenty...
This alarming fact, says Ruth K. Perritt, head librarian of Radcliffe, shows merely the normal increase in required reading produced by the stabiliation of the General Education program. The university-wide trend will continue in succeeding years of gen. Ed. courses...
...criticism of radio and television has always been that the networks not only sell commercial spots to their sponsors but often let the advertisers control the programs as well. This week NBC made a major move to reverse the trend. It signed an unprecedented contract with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dramatist & Biographer Robert Sherwood (Idiot's Delight, Roosevelt and Hopkins], guaranteeing him more than $100,000 for a series of nine original hour-long TV plays to be written during the next three years. An even more important and unusual stipulation: Sherwood may write about any subject he chooses (except...
...away courses and professors. Each year, the Design School's pamphlet of courses becomes thinner and its professors less impressive; still, the school is dipping into the red, and until the new dean steps into his office Design has no way of curbing its losses, except to continue the trend toward mediocrity...