Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vogt made no mention of grades in his proposal. He suggested "a check on progress" through student papers, lab reports, and exams given by individual departments and the Committee on General Education...
Delta Doubts. In another place, Vietnamization remains a promising but untried theory. As part of the Dong Tien (literally, Progress Together) program, ARVN's 5th infantry division has been undergoing intensive training by the U.S.'s 1st Infantry Division. When the Big Red One departs, probably under President Nixon's third round of withdrawals, scheduled to be completed by April 15, the Vietnamese will assume responsibility for guarding the critical northern approaches to Saigon...
...year for the recommended new programs, plus continuing the growth of federal funding for present social science projects at a rate of 12% to 18% each year. Bills embodying some ideas in the report have been introduced in Congress during the past two years, but have made little real progress. Nonetheless, the BASS report and its counterparts released in the past 18 months by other groups put social scientists on notice. "If they are to contribute effectively to the quality of life," warns the BASS committee, "they may have to move more rapidly than is altogether congenial...
...sistance in Boulez's continuing campaign to rediscover Debussy is the London Royal Opera's new setting of Pelleas et Melisande, Debussy's only opera (1902). Debussy believed that in opera "nothing should impede the progress of the drama-all musical development not called for by the words is a mistake." In his rigorously faithful setting of Maeterlinck's moonstruck play about love and fratricide, Debussy ruled out full-blown arias as well as vocal ensembles, and restricted the singers largely to declamation, meanwhile raising the orchestra to a new importance as the main commentator...
...lung infection; in Tegucigalpa. Huge, mustachioed and of Indian descent, Andino was something of a popular hero when he was elected President in 1932. He did achieve a measure of political stability in an unstable country (116 Presidents in 108 years of independence) as well as some economic progress. But his hero image faded swiftly when he began ruling by fiat and filled the prisons with those who protested, all the while illegally extending his term. In 1949, he handed power over to a handpicked successor, who turned out to be less of a puppet than expected, made certain that...