Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LACKING an elemental confidence in their nation's flimsy architectural foundations, Americans continue to construct buildings which will conform to their need for a tradition -buildings which, however, bear no relation to the functional sensibility required today. These buildings, consequently, fail to grab the imagination or heart of contemporary America; they remain unintegrated and distant from the world they seek to underpin...
...fund drive turned into a 5 million dollar success-the biggest single fund-raising drive ever conducted for a law school. The curriculum has already moved substantially toward a pass-fail system, and more changes are expected over the next two years. Contrary to some of the more dire predictions, the Law School is still standing...
...what we fail to see is that, while the content may be all nostalgia and would-be innocence, the packaging is relentlessly right up to date. Elvis, along with whatever else remains of the early fifties, along with folk music and rural traditions, along with the simplicities of our childhood, has been absorbed and reprocessed...
...results after a President has won his own office so strongly two years previously that he has brought in marginal candidates; these then become vulnerable when they run on their own. Nixon had no such vulnerable retinue: he was the first incoming President since Zachary Taylor in 1848 to fail to bring with him a majority in either chamber...
...Quite simply, I do not see highly educated women making startling strides in contributing to our society in the foreseeable future. They are not, in my opinion, going to stop getting married and/or having children. They will fail in their present role as women if they do." - von Stade, in Aug. 25, 1969 letter...