Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Farther south in Tyre, all that remained of a population that once numbered 45,000 was a few hundred aged Lebanese civilians and scores of teen-age Palestinian fighters. Smoke rose from the ruins of a building hit by Israeli bombs. Palestinians and Lebanese dug through rubble in search of bodies. The bombardment seemed to have been indiscriminate, both from the air and from ships offshore. Except for one Palestinian antiaircraft gun on the outskirts of town, no military targets had been hit. The port remained undamaged. What had been hit, and hard, was the civilian dwellings. Was this deliberate...
Foes of the reform attack it as reactionary. Says Sociology Professor Orlando Patterson: "Arriving at some fixed notion of what constitutes an educated person-in this day and age. it just won't wash. It moves away from a view that learning to think for oneself is the key to a modern education...
...that professors in the natural sciences oppose the core because they believe its suggested requirements do not do justice to the "hard" sciences. "I think the Natural Sciences professors don't believe that any core that contains 20 per cent Natural Science requirements is justified in this day and age," Robert V. Pound, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and an opponent of the core, said yesterday...
...idyl could not last. Father was called to a grimy industrial parish in Birmingham; their mother contracted influenza and died. But soon there was a new Mrs. Knox, an elegant lady from a landed family who encouraged the boys' brilliance: Ronnie was reading Virgil at the age of six. It was she who decreed the boarding schools they later attended: Eton for Dilly and Ronnie, Rugby for Eddie and Wilfred. Dilly went on to Cambridge, where Lytton Strachey fell in love with him (the compliment was not returned). The others went up to Oxford...
Horner, who is so busy lately she says she cannot remember if this is her fifth or sixth year on the job, plans to get "some good solid footing," then hopes to give someone else a chance at the Radcliffe presidency. She adds, in this age when ten years is too long to stay on as president, it would be unfair to stay only three, as she had originally planned...