Word: vis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus, through-the-looking-glass, the New Statesman imagines what world reaction would have been if the U.S. had been in Russia's role vis-a-vis Czechoslovakia. The usually anti-American magazine suggested, of course, that the U.S. was not unnecessarily beyond this sort of behavior, particularly if the country in question were as near to the U.S. as Czechoslovakia is to Russia. Still, the New Statesman came down hard on the Russians: "One has only to consider this scenario to see how in-defensible-in terms of any principles ever upheld by men of integrity, including that...
...good faith, has promised to adjust its concentration requirements towards those of the new major. For example, under certain circumstances the department will grant permission to substitute its math and physics requirement with courses from the much wider list of Visual Studies required and optional related courses. Also all Vis Stud courses will be equally open to Arch Sci concentrators next year. It is important that the old department let its concentrators make their programs of study as much like those of the new department as possible...
...backwardness of Cambridge City Hospital is disturbing since 50 per cent of all Cambridge deliveries take place there; furthermore, most welfare cases and low income families receive their prenatal care and have their deliveries through the clinic because of its convenience and low cost. The argumments for "conservatism" vis a vis family planning in Cambridge are not substantive. Having Catholics on the Board of Trustees (three out of five) should not retard progress if the example of Cardinal Cushing on the Board of the Boston City Hospital is followed. Cardinal Cushing preached ecumenicism of spirit and "private conscience" in approving...
There may be a few exceptions--a few current sophomores in Arch Sci allowed to change to Vis Stud--but they will be "really important cases", Eduard Sekler, Chairman of the Visual Studies Department, said yesterday...
...affluent society and the afflicted society." When Nixon appeared next day, he warned that such spending would only feed inflation and thus starve the slum dweller. Nixon turned with greater vivacity to the Democrats. "McCarthy has the intellectuals, Hubert has Lyndon and Bobby has the World Bank," he quipped vis-a-vis Robert McNamara's fulsome endorsement of Kennedy. Nixon had just had a haircut, and he noted that R.F.K. had got one too. "I've known Bobby Kennedy for 14 years, and he gets a haircut about this time every year...