Word: keep
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Doermann also stated that he expected College tuition to rise again next year, above the current $2600, to keep pace with further inflation...
...turned out, a man by the name of Roderic W. Foster helped Yovicsin and the boys out of a potentially embarrassing situation. Foster did a little serious quarterbacking in the second half, driving Harvard to three touchdowns and picking up 78 yards by himself. He also punted, just to keep his hand in. So Harvard, picked up an acceptable 28-7 triumph over the locals, and Yovicsin surpasses Percy Haughton's record for most career victories as a Harvard coach. That's a little more satisfying than arranging Kasanof Bakery Day at Suffolk Downs, which would have been Yovicsin...
Unpardonable Sin. Despite Bowker's determination to keep high standards, critics feel that some dilution of quality must eventually appear in even the best-funded and -staffed open-admissions program. Guaranteed admissions, they argue, may lead to insidious pressures for guaranteed diplomas. At the moment the biggest worry is how to keep many students from dropping out, but "20% of these kids get a degree," says Vice-Chancellor Healy. "That's 20% above zero." Even those who earn two-year degrees will benefit the city, which sorely needs trained people in fields ranging from medicine to police work...
...enjoy-or merely endure-Italian opera, especially Verdi, a word-for-word acquaintance with the libretto is not essential. Most listeners will be able to navigate the critical junctures of the average plot by developing a familiarity with a handful of catch phrases. Such verbal adornments keep the melodrama moving and can be used to tell almost any story. As in the following dialogue -drawn entirely from Verdi's Ernani -which took place between an opera-loving wife and a bored husband on opening night at the Met. SCENE...
...self-conscious emulation of the youth they have helped to alienate, TV producers and writers keep proclaiming that their programming has suddenly become "heavy." Yet from the series already unveiled and the scenarios of those due this week, one can only conclude that the heaviness is not in the writers' hearts but in their hands...