Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These two innovations--student-faculty committees and junior theses--bear directly on the educational policy of the entire college. If the curious parochialism of the "baronial" system prevents them from spreading spontaneously through all the departments, the Faculty as a whole should step in and recognize the ideas for what they are--natural consequences of the spirit and decisions of the recent debates on General Education...
...trying to do, his image will take care of itself." It is probably just as well that Johnson does not have Kennedy's charismatic qualities in addition to his own talent for power and practical achievement. The combination might be too much for American democracy to bear...
Crime & Punishment. There is an eleven-year gap in the legend-until 1836, when a tall stranger with a flowing beard and erect military bearing rode into the Siberian outpost of Krasnoufimsk on a white horse. He carried his right hand on his hip in the manner of the late Czar; he spoke fluent French and a kind of Russian that was half church-Slavic, half Latin; he carried an icon with the initials A.I. The peasants began to wonder if this might not be Alexander the Blessed. When the stranger, who gave his name as Fyodor Kuzmich but could...
...Against God. The Christian Life Commission became a full-fledged agency of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1947 with the ostensible aim of bringing Christianity to bear on everyday life-the family, daily work, citizenship, race relations. It remained an organizational starveling until Foy Valentine became its executive secretary five years ago. A scholarly, witty Texan of 42, Baptist Preacher Valentine now runs a staff of three men and two secretaries, from a well-appointed office in the headquarters building of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville. On a budget of $90,000, he supplies written materials to local congregations...
Clay was angered that the second Liston bout was so short. He wanted more time to humiliate the Bear, to show off his beautiful style. The cries of "Fix" also gave him second thoughts about how to best establish his supremacy among the likes of Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, and Joe Louis...