Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Relevant Bull. The free university movement is based on familiar complaints, most of them summarized in a petition circulated by a group of teaching fellows during Harvard's recent student strike. Said the petition, which was signed by more than a thousand Harvard students: "Professors are hired for their research achievements, not their teaching ability. Almost the only educational technique employed by senior faculty members is the lecture, involving no communication or concern. Grades are awarded for effective mimicry. The university seems not to care for the self-understanding, self-respect or independent thought of its students...
...present, the Harvard shadow school offers 25 courses on determinedly "relevant" topics, ranging from radical politics to the ethics of middle-class suburbia. The quality of the bull sessions is necessarily uneven. David A. Lane, a teaching fellow in history, is studying Claude Lévi-Strauss in a New College course led by a senior majoring in folklore and mythology. Lane calls the meetings "the best intellectual discussions I've ever participated...
Liller and "Jamesian Joe" Butwin tied for the MVP award. A special citation for duty above and beyond the call went to Jerry "Bull"Gerst, the corn-fed lowan, for stealing home from first on a pop fly and two errors and scoring the winning run. Gerst suffered multiple lacerations of the knees, but Stillman reports that he will be able to play in next week's rematch...
Crisis, of course, is as elemental to bullfighting as the cape and sword. Fifty years ago, Spaniards swore that Belmonte was commercializing the fights by breeding his own bulls and using an agent to arrange appearances at the then prime price of $3,300 an afternoon. The bull was no longer the central figure of the confrontation; the cult of the matador had been born. Once, such disputations raged in the comfortable surroundings of a packed arena. Crowds this year have been skimpy everywhere since the season opened in Castellon de la Plana. They have been rebellious too. In Seville...
Died. Chief White Cloud, 102, last of a proud lineage of chieftains that once dominated the fabled American West, and friend of Sitting Bull, leader of the Creek Nation, whose oil-rich Oklahoma lands were taken over by the U.S. Government in 1907, after which the tribe scattered and he became a spiritualist minister and patent medicine salesman; of a stroke; in Canton, Ohio...