Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picketing miners pelted them with rocks, smoke bombs, ball bearings and nail-studded potatoes. Two thousand policemen charged repeatedly into the crowd on foot and on horseback. By the end of the day, 81 strikers had been arrested and at least 110 people hurt, among them 41 policemen. Thundered Arthur Scargill, 46, president of the powerful National Union of Mineworkers: "There were scenes of brutality that were almost unbelievable...
...anew. Renaissance vendettas can seem remote, "operatic," unreal, but transplanted to Mulberry Street in the 1950s, they take on a grimy, visceral immediacy. In the major roles, John Rawnsley as Rigoletto displays a rich, focused baritone, and Valerie Masterson as Gilda has a clear, secure high soprano. Tenor Arthur Davies' voice is a little light for the Duke, but he manages to make the character at once attractive and morally repugnant. As the trampy siren...
...Wilson tells it, "I persuaded him to write it. Arthur was teaching this course on Congress and the Common Good. One day I walked into class and told him, 'one day you're going to retire--why don't you write it down?' And I wouldn't leave until he promised...
...David N. Tancredi '84, $1500, for his senior thesis entitled "The Ambiguities of Ayurvedic Medical Practice in Modernizing Urban India"--Professor Arthur Kleinman...
...point, the authors of Not in Our Genes shoot down the traditional studies which confirm existing social conditions. Cyril Burt's often-quoted identical twin studies, conducted in the 1950s, supposedly proved the inhabitability of IQ. Those who would later argue for a meritocracy based on IQ--such as Arthur Jensen, in his famous and influential article on the subject in the Harvard Educational Review published in 1969--drew upon Burt's data. But Lewontin and his cohorts point out the fraudulence of Burt's evidence. Not only are there serious problems with the validity of these separated twin studies...