Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Many members of the 20th Century Week committee felt it was not enough to present a program of seminars punctuated by public panel discussions. There was considerable support for the notion that the program could yield new ideas and widespread discussion of the United States Image.
Apparently, the committee had decided to try to attract large audiences when, soon before the program began, it sought first Adlai Stevenson, then Averell Harriman to speak at the close of the Week. But this attempt to spread the interest already inspired in the seminars throughout the entire campus was...
This indecisive planning cannot be blamed entirely on the planners of Twentieth Century Week--such waverings between over-ambitiousness and over-conservatism are implicit in practically any such undergraduate enterprise. Nor are they fully responsible for the program's failure to attract wide-spread undergraduate interest. For they ran into...
When plans for the Week were first being framed, the program committee was thinking in terms of a $35,000 budget. Last spring, apparently, they traveled the foundation circuit, receiving expressions of interest, but no commitments. These nibbles, however, led them to plan for a large-scale program--until they...
Perhaps the best example of the group's fund-raising problem occurred when they went to the Ford Foundation for support. Attracted by the project, but suspicious of the group's ability to carry through, Ford offered to put up the entire sum needed, with only one string attached: they...