Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The result was a disturbingly small attendance at the sessions (fewer than 250 people attended most of Sanders Theatre programs) and a widespread apathy toward 20th Century Week in general among students not connected with the seminars.
Other members of the committee--and most of the general public--assumed that the purpose of the evening was to attract sizeable audiences and promote discussion of the program and the ideas that from it. The speakers selected for seminars, while generally quite articulate and well-versed in their , were...
Students who attended the seminar sessions felt they for the most part quite valuable and were usually satisfied that 20th Century Week had lived up to their . The seminars provided a rare opportunity for discussing the feelings of other countries toward the United States with government officials from abroad.
Those who attended only the evening programs did share this feeling of satisfaction. Since the panel discussions were designed primarily as introductions for the following day's seminars, many people felt they contributed little to an understanding of "the U.S. Image" isolated from the seminars.
Here again there was confusion about aims of the program. If the evening panels were supposed to be merely an introduction to the next day's seminars, then students not involved in the seminars were perfectly justified in staying away, and there should have been no disappointment at the small...