Word: butter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What Ford does will reach to their hillside as have the actions of the other 15 Presidents in their span. They will neither huzzah nor protest but go on about the enduring business of living, finding fulfillment in family, church and neighbors. They are not recluses or faddists. Their butter and soap come from the store. They worked the land, taught country school, and welcomed the automobile, hybrid corn and television. And what they had at any moment was always enough. The nearest interstate highway (30 miles) or urban shopping complex (80 miles) did not lure them away. They stayed...
Compost Heap. Since then the magazine has served up a steady fare of amiably instructive articles on such topics as how to raise pigs, make maple syrup, build a compost heap and install a lightning rod. "How-to articles are our bread and butter," says Editor Ketchum. Interleaved between the how-tos are thoughtful pieces on such issues as energy policy, the morality of hunting and the future of farming. For all its bucolic content, the magazine is dressed up in striking contemporary design that earned it last week's award...
However, the bread-and-butter protests at Brown have started to spread to other colleges. Budget-related strikes were being planned this week at Princeton and UMass, and there was a small demonstration in the Yard Wednesday featuring what President Bok believed was his first burning-in-effigy...
...more liberal Unitarians. In later years, the fights centered on whether the University should be primarily concerned with training and indoctrinating young minds or with providing the proper conditions for the production of new knowledge. Third, Lipset describes various student rebellions--over issues ranging from the quality of butter served in the dining comments to the internal social hierarchy imposed on undergraduates. A side from the events of 1969, the apparent high point for student rebellion came in 1834 when a dispute over University discipline led President Josiah Quincy to suspend the entire sophomore class for a year...
...Pass the f butter...