Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military posture, but are "upset over the possible fall of the South Vietnamese government that we have supported, and feel that if the government changes and we are asked to withdraw, our position there will be untenable." In neighboring Arizona, reported Democrat Samuel Goddard, public opinion reflects a similar blend of support and concern...
...sheer shortage of teachers and a system of tenure that ensures every professor his job for a lifetime prevent administrators from firing stale and incompetent teachers. Sociology Professor Robert Nisbet of the University of California's Riverside campus calls tenure "a blend of mystique and the sacred, as nearly impregnable a form of differential privilege as the mind of man has ever devised." The teaching profession, says the Danforth Foundation's Merrimon Cuninggim, "is the only profession that has no definition for malpractice." Even mental deterioration is no cause for dismissal, and, says Nisbet, "a single man can cause intellectual...
While teaching is a highly personal blend of style, scholarship and attitudes, the qualities of the great teachers of the past are not at all mysterious. Socrates, bearded and bald, gave his name to today's best seminar style simply by plucking insights out of youthful minds with incisive questions. Aristotle drew upon the illustrative experiences of his reckless youth to inspire other youths to be good; his Lyceum linked research and teaching by analyzing biological specimens. In a medieval age of faith, the unconventional Peter Abelard employed shafts of wit and the theory that "constant questioning is the first...
...young generation is often a curious blend of old and new. M. V. Arunachalam, 38, who helps direct twelve family companies in southern India, prefers to wear the sheetlike Indian lungi and practices yoga every morning, but he also insisted on automatic elevators in the firm's new nine-story building, and is negotiating with IBM for a computer to handle payrolls and inventory. The Mafatlals, on the other hand, follow the tradition of communal living: the brothers and their families all occupy one five-story, 20-bedroom house. Arvind Mafatlal is a vegetarian, prays an hour every morning...
...matched the acidity of one with the sweetness of another, the weakness of one with another's strong alcoholic body. When they were done, the formula had been arrived at by which such famous champagne houses as Krug, Mumm, Moët et Chandon and Pol Roger will blend their 1965 product...