Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mother of both a gifted child and one with learning disabilities, I am very grateful for the special-education opportunities that have usually been available for my learning-disabled child. However, the needs of a gifted child to be identified at an early age and appropriately challenged are important...
WHEN TALCOTT PARSONS, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, died last week in Munich at the age of 76, an era in the history of sociology drew to a close. In a distinguished career of nearly half a century, Parsons, the first chairman of Harvard's Department of Social Relations, established sociology as a legitimate academic discipline that was simultaneously systematic and broad-ranging in scope. Through his translation of the German sociologist Max Weber's Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft [The Theory of Social and Economic Organization], and, later, through the development of his own "structural-functional" theory, Parsons sought to provide scholars...
...Watson Jr., her boss and mentor at IBM, calls her "brilliant and practical." A West Coast producer, less admiringly, terms her "conservative, moralistic, businesslike and hard." A liberal arts major at the University of Maryland, the Washington, D.C.-born Pfeiffer joined IBM soon after leaving the convent at the age of 23. In her two decades there, she rose from a trainee job to a vice presidency, with a reputation for quick decisions and no false moves...
...found it too much of a not good enough thing. But perhaps they missed the point. The evening, with its interlude of vocal selections and its entr'acte speech by Gottschalk Scholar Robert Offergeld, was intended as a nostalgic entertainment, a good-humored throwback to a more innocent age when the concert hall had to mediate between the salon and the circus. If Gottschalk's significance did not always come through clearly, his flamboyant spirit certainly...
...named Célimène, Molière pressed poetic comedy and satiric wit to the edge of tears. Le Misanthrope is his bittersweet masterpiece. In a comedy of manners, Alceste's notion of telling the truth himself on all occasions and correcting the chicanery of the age clearly marks him as a crackpot bound for grief. But as the play proceeds and the caesuras required of French classic verse occasionally become pregnant pauses, Molière manages to give his compulsive critic's obsession a touch of nobility...