Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Derrick A. Bell Jr, professor of Law and the Law School's only black professor, said Friday he may not return to the Law School after his leave of absence next year...
...organized by Robert Hutchins, iconoclastic former president of the University of Chicago. Amidst the seaside splendor of a 43-acre Mediterranean-style estate in Santa Barbara, Calif., the center's scholars pursued Hutchins' formidable goal. An average of three mornings a week, the chimes of a Benedictine bell summoned them forth to a marble-floored edifice for "dialogues" on weighty issues-many of which eventually appeared in a lofty publication called The Center Magazine...
...Daniel Bell, professor of Sociology, said last night that officials had responded to this kind of message in the past, particularly in the case of Russian dissidents...
...either houses or no significant gains (Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Boston, Riversides). In every city studied busing failed to reduce the gap between black and white achievement. In fact most cities reported that the achievement gap had grown even larger after busing. Scholars who have reviewed the evidence, including Armor, Bell, Edmonds, Giazer, and St. John, have concluded that using had little if any effect on the academic achievement of either black or white children. Thus, the most recent sociological evidence falls to confirm a basic premise underlying the rationale for court-ordered busing, i.e. that it will positively effect...
...cause for utmost ambivalence in virtually all women. The beautiful woman dreads that pregnancy will disfigure her. The career woman fears that motherhood will distract her. And the growing woman fears that motherhood will enslave her. Spacks again finds that an adolescent, in this case. Esther Greenwood from The Bell Jar, sees most explicitly the destructiveness which this particular kind of creativity can cause...