Word: diffusionism
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Playing the Game. Wilkinson is handsome, clean-living, hardworking. Long before he decided to run for public office, he was personally known in almost every community in the state with a high school large enough to accommodate the lean, quick youngsters that Bud loved to recruit for his Sooner squad...
∙ Julian P. Boyd, historian, editor, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson-L.H.D. Holding with Thomas Jefferson that "no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness" than "the diffusion of knowledge among the people," you have by your masterly editing of his papers attained...
Eye on the Ball. Most of the cash will go for a flood of direct-mail literature. The organization has purchased -for roughly $ a name-mailing lists of thousands of Oregon Republicans. Rationalized Goldberg about the organization's money shortage: "If you're given too much money, you...
None of the tensions between sciences are absolute, but they tend to force the General Education program to exist in one world or the other. That choice must not be made: the program must exist in both, and if possible it must serve as a bridge. This it must do...
Last spring, hope returned. Lincoln Center's directors-tireless boasters before the hall was built-confessed that acoustical scientists had confirmed the findings of Schonberg's ear: the hall lacked bass, was haunted by echoes, needed a more equal diffusion of sound. Workmen arrived in June to raise...