Word: beer
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...with the Humanities and including a new "Behavioral Sciences" category (anthropology, psychology, social relations, and "appropriate portions" of Government) along with the traditional "Natural Sciences" in a new "Sciences" category. Humanists like Reuben Brower and Rogers Albritton objected to the debasement of the word "Humanities;" social scientists like Samuel Beer objected to the separation of history from the economists, psychologists, and sociologists who had done much of its advanced work...
Whatever the new fommulation, the new Gen Ed Committee will be taking over the program at a crucial moment. The professors who have given life to the Gen Ed program since its inception cannot carry the burden much longer. Finley, L. K. Nash, Samuel Beer, and Gerald Holton have taught the same lower-level Gen Ed courses almost every year since the program was made mandatory in 1949. Reuben Brower's Humanities 6 is 11 years...
...clock that I haven't had lunch." Frequently, he is still on the telephone at 4 a.m. He manages his afternoon naps but no longer has time for swims in the White House pool. Instead of the relaxing Cutty Sark and soda, he now sips root beer or a no-calorie orange drink in his Oval Office. There are deep, dark circles beneath his eyes, and his voice is hoarse. Last week he paused briefly to gaze at a White House bust of another wartime President - Abraham Lincoln -and compassion was stamped on his own weary features...
...Henry Dickens Court, the air reeks with curry and saris crowd the pavements, while other alleys are lined with Moslem butcher shops, Urdu movie houses, West Indian fish stands and Sikh temples. Behind the seamy house-fronts, brightened, Caribbean-style, with mauve, yellow and blue paint, crowded weekend beer parties set the nights alive with calypso melodies, steel drums, and some nasty fights...
...Hairy Men! Bump is fashionable and sick; Hairy Men is outmoded and slick. Both plays are bad, and they typify extremes of shallowness that leave the Broadway scene increasingly barren of authentic drama, honest emotion, and a conviction of reality. Broadway is stalemated between plays that cry in their beer and plays that munch cream puffs, between those that try to shock and those that aim to tease, between psychological freak shows and intellectual shell games. It is small wonder that people have been driven out of the theater when they find so little that is enduringly human...