Word: wither
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even more to be deplored than our tendency to ignore the results of research and evaluation in shaping public policy is our tendency to undertake great and promising enterprises of just this kind only to forget about them and allow them to wither on the vine as other more interesting subjects come along. Let me cite, for example, the research and evaluation programs that accompanied the demonstration projects funded by the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, established in 1961. As few programs in the history of American government, this one set out consciously and openly...
Under Communism, crime was supposed to wither away as fast as the state. But last week the Soviet Union acknowledged its soaring crime rate by creating a new "Ministry for the Protection of Public Peace," which will nationalize the country's sorely beset police forces. While sharply boosting police powers and urging more prowl cars, the Kremlin freed Russians of any liability for injury done to a suspect in making a citizen's arrest...
...project will take away from the school part of the responsibility for teaching humanities and social sciences. "As total institutions," Oliver said, "secondary schools are hopeless. We can leave them the things they teach best--math and science. But it's time we began to let general education wither...
...because it will take away from the school part of the responsibility for teaching humanities and social sciences. "As total institutions," Oliver said, "secondary schools are hopeless. We can leave them the things they teach best--math and science. But it's time we began to let general education wither away...
...murderers' row (Swift, Pope, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters. In 15 novels of cunning construction and lapidary eloquence, Evelyn Waugh developed a wickedly hilarious and yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world. God it had killed and in his stead had raised up gadgets; and in gadgets had gone haring into outer space to hide from an inner vacuity unbearable to contemplate. Reflected in his icy eye, a mad world knew that...