Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Program which does not depend at all on the material taught being essential to some sort of generally educated man. Most of those who take this view are dismayed by the greater and greater specialization among undergraduates, however helpful such early specialization may be to those who wish to get an early start on their doctorates, intense specialization also puts heavy pressure on undergraduates to commit themselves prematurely to a narrow area of study, and it can be argued that an undergraduate education deep and narrow is not the best preparation for the student who plans to make his career...
...when it comes to figuring out what makes a trend, the menswear men only wish they knew. It can be a President - but not necessarily. Ex-Haberdasher Harry Truman completed the apotheosis of the wild sports shirt worn outside the trousers, but otherwise excited no sartorial emulation. Jack Kennedy did. "Suddenly everybody wanted to look like he came from Harvard, or like he thought everyone looked at Harvard," says Grossman. And it is hoped that the floundering hat industry, for which Kennedy's wind-blown look did nothing, will revive under the ten-gallon-Texan inspiration of President Johnson...
...last year carried 80,000 transatlantic passengers, twice the number it flew in 1953. Icelandic, which is owned by 700 Icelanders, is content with its small share of a big and growing market. Says Managing Director Alfred Eliasson: "We have no desire to kill any of the Goliaths, but wish only to continue living in the image of David in peaceful coexistence with the Philistines...
...excellent story. I wish it were possible for every mother-and father-to read your report on Marguerite Claverie Pic Oswald Ekdahl, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald. Through her seemingly warped personality, her failure to provide a modicum of healthy home environment, her unwillingness or inability to cooperate with professional people and public officials, Marguerite Claverie Pic Oswald Ekdahl plays an unenviable role in the circumstances leading to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. She wants to go down in history? Well, history is replete with unsavory personalities...
According to the article, Americans often told the tourists that young people in the United States do not have ideals to which to dedicate their lives. The writers remark that "the dollar is god, for whom many young Americans wish to work...