Word: unpreparedness
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Tutorial succeeds best when it involves only one student and one tutor. Then the motivation is not the grade, but the desire to prove one's thoughts to a man one respects. To be caught up unprepared in an individual tutorial makes one feel like a fool, and avoiding this...
General stiffening of curriculum seems a more practical suggestion. "Too many people turn away from science and engineering in college because they feel so unprepared in math and basic science," Grayson Kirk observed. "Given opportunities for choice, children may take easier subjects, and do."
Carped the New York Journal-American's Jack O'Brian: "Crosby seemed to smile as if in constant pain. Closeups presented his face with a seemingly endless mouth and large lips which seemed to be pulled vertically apart as if with unseen strings." The Daily News's...
Since Russia's successful satellite launching was completely unheralded, and since the U.S. had not slated its attempt until next spring, the Smithsonian found itself partially unprepared on the night of October 4. Moonwatch teams had been organized, but with no advance warning their personnel was scattered and had to...
Kissinger's horrible example of how not to conduct limited war is Korea, the one limited war the U.S. has fought against Communism. All the confusions of U.S. policy popped up as fighting went on. Washington's fear of touching off a "big war" enfeebled U.S. planning to...