Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope of 1959 that 1958's limited success in cold-war foreign policy bred a tough U.S. restraint and a will to live with the battle in all its forms. It was the hope of the policy of decades that 1959 began with a general dissatisfaction with the broad aims and goals of U.S. policy as thus defined, a general determination to do something about them...
Another rapidly growing problem: the in-fighting between the Pentagon's ARPA and the civilian-controlled National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ARPA's Johnson recently stomped on NASA's big toe by publicly proclaiming the broad details of NASA's upcoming man-in-space Project Mercury. If anyone can survive the built-in hazards of the job, walk a straight line through the service detours and still know a scientific toe when he sees one, it is Herb York...
...class elements have now vanished from the Soviet scene, the code drops Stalin's old category of "enemy of the people." and the clause authorizing imprisonment or transportation of the relatives of such unfortunates. But the new laws still provide for punishment of any "counterrevolutionary" act, a term broad enough to run the population of Soviet "corrective labor" camps back from their present estimated 1,000,000 to the 10 million...
...Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where professional training comes only to those who already have college degrees. Columbia requires applicants to show some evidence of bona fide professional interest, turns down two out of three applicants, including some Phi Beta Kappas. The student body of about 70 takes broad subjects in the field, e.g., the law of libel, under an excellent faculty (average salary: more than $10,000) backed up by guest lecturers from Manhattan publications...
...called for specific details of phrasing, dynamics, tempo. The major problem, she finds, is "getting a new idea of Bach across" to orchestra men chiefly schooled in the romantic repertory of the 19th century. In describing her ideas, she avoids technical detail, often uses phrases like "Keep it broad!" Once, during rehearsal last week, she cried, "You know what I mean," drew from Concertmaster John Corigliano a gentle suggestion: "If you want it, you must show them...