Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, told a Faculty meeting this spring that general education was an important educational development in the '40s because it flowed from the character of the era. The challenge facing the Faculty in its current review of undergraduate education, Beer said...
Transformed by Dignity. On the bare cypress-wood stage of the Nō theater, the actor's robe is both costume and set. Its stiff, voluminous folds, bulked out with padding and under-robes, suggest architecture. The actors move slowly-Nō acting is more remarkable for stateliness than...
The system embracing professionals (independent doctors, lawyers, dentists, engineers) is something else again. Their earnings, though broadly determined by the general marketplace, are also subject to the influences of an intimate psychological marketplace, one in which intangibles of repute and character are bought and sold along with knowledge and service...
In the end, a certain dream underlies the whole scheme of compensation. Its helter-skelter character, after all, is an expression of one overriding national value: the libertarian ideal. It is the intentional absence of central control that produces the unevenness of the final result. The very elasticity that Americans...
We have been over this ground many times before. Peckinpah, haranguing us from the front of the bus about the horrors of war, lends a grisly authenticity to some of the scenes, but he cannot make it all fresh enough to justify the long, grueling trip. To the battleweary German...