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...miles. But the greatest distance Botero has traveled is from his dirt-poor beginnings. His father battled to keep his family afloat in Medellín - now Colombia's second-largest city (and a center of the country's cocaine business), but an isolated backwater during the 1930s and 1940s - by riding mules over rutted mountain tracks and peddling household items to villagers. He died when Botero was just 4, leaving his widow and three sons in such dire poverty that "it was very hard for my mother to feed us," Botero says. At 15, young Botero began selling paintings...
...major goal of the summer subcommittee is to produce a report that is longer and more thorough than the nine-page March report. The Draft Final Report is far shorter than the reports of curricular reviews in past decades, such as the Redbook of the late 1940s, a national bestseller that laid out a theory of a liberal arts education for a post-war American society...
...past two curricular reviews, University presidents have played large roles in forming the new curricula—James Conant ’13 produced the bestselling Redbook on general education in the late 1940s, and Derek Bok spearheaded the formation of today’s Core Curriculum...
...Cold War tensions rose in the late 1940s and early 1950s, fears of communism surged across the United States, and the nation’s university campuses were no exception...
...late 1940s and early 1950s, The Crimson came to stand out from the ranks of most university newspapers for its coverage of McCarthy’s communist hunts and other questions of academic freedom...