Word: turne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though society has overhauled the university in this and other ways, the university must not turn its back on society. It has come too far to retreat to the concept of Little Ivy espoused by Professor Ulam. Shutting out political controversy and the mania for "relevance" might indeed bring forth a tranquil university. A tranquil university, though, would also be a dead...
...might be expected, many of these incestuous financial marriages turn out to be sterile. Prizing security above all else, Italy's interlocked industrial and financial titans have been reluctant to take the risks that are necessary to stimulate the country's economic growth...
...That Knocking at My Door?, made over a period of two years at New York University by Martin Scorsese, 26, a graduate student. The film's several weaknesses and excesses prevent it from being totally successful. But it introduces a young director who just may turn out to be one of the brighter talents of this eager new generation...
...buildings but-the silos," recalls Joseph D. Travis Jr., 48, "and we knew they would be expensive to pull down." Then Travis, remembering reports of California's flourishing singles colonies, suggested to his partners, William C. Erwin Jr. and James E. Kavanaugh, that they could turn the silos into apartments for the young and unattached. "Everyone thought I was nuts," says Travis...
...active conscience. To protect his subjects, Richelieu lectured Louis, a sovereign must first protect the state. When the state is threatened, the first consideration is not to ensure justice but to remove the threat. Sadly, the headsman could not eliminate the doubts of rivals and traitors; happily, he could turn them into abstractions...