Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be given and how, teachers share responsibility for the school's tone. Friedman's classes stress "dialogue" and "interaction of teacher and student"--terms which he savoured continually while discussing Buber's edu-educational theory. But another, more traditional teacher, might make his course as conventional as he chose. And more and more, as the faculty expands, the college acquires the latter breed...
...trifling discrepancy of centuries from the Homeric period. The other was the costume of Cassandra's charioteer, Mr. John Weare, class of 1907. Having been chosen for his brawn and skill to manage the span of affectionate but spirited Arabian horses, this charioteer, who also drives an automobile, chose in turn to wear his driver's license, a white celluloid button, usually worn on coat lapel, pinned to his fillet at midpoint of his forehead where, as it glanced and gleamed in the sunlight, the spurious interpolation was doubtless supposed by the audience to be some antique jewel of fabulous...
...They once were the doves of the N.H.L., so timid that from 1947 to 1958 their only excursion outside the cellar was fourth place in 1953. At last. Owner Jim Norris took a gamble that few fans thought would work. As the club's 22nd coach, he chose a tall, bush-browed, front-office man named Rudy Pilous, who had no professional coaching experience...
...thoughtful and gregarious veteran of Oxford and Britain's World War II Desert Rats, does indeed set prices for the industry. Reason: almost all other African producers see the advantage of selling to the De Beers powerhouse rather than engaging in cutthroat competition. Even the Soviets recently chose Oppenheimer to market their Siberian gems. As for those who dig his diamonds out, Oppenheimer pays his unskilled African laborers better than most, but it still does not seem like much: an average 78? a day, plus free housing, food and medical care...
...into the broad highway of American political reform . . . that connected with the continuity and conservative tradition of American life. The other road was a highroad of moral idealism, which cut directly across the conservative pattern of American society to revolution, secession and civil war. This was the road Garrison chose." Thomas, apparently, belongs to the "unnecessary war" school of historians and implies that the conservative "broad highway" would have brought an end to slavery without bloodshed, though the process would have taken a little longer...