Word: consistence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Proceeding from these situation-ethics premises, the report endorsed birth control assistance for the unmarried, provided that it does not consist of the mere "impersonal and commercial distribution" of contraceptives. It called for the relaxing of antiabortion laws and found that masturbation may provide a legitimate means of "relief of physical tensions," though it is never more than an "impoverished substitute for the real thing." Finally, the report spoke with charity of attempts to rehabilitate four-and five-letter words, such as those used by D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover and by Wayland Young in Eros...
...Absolute Freedom." Neither Thomson nor Astor will completely control the eleven-man board, which will hire and fire editors. It will consist of the editor in chief, the general manager, two Astor men, three Thomson men, and-at the fulcrum-four "independent national figures" to be approved by both partners. Though Thomson will not be on the board, his son, Kenneth, 43, will be vice chairman. Said Thomson, who, like the U.S.'s Sam Newhouse, reads balance sheets much more avidly than editorial pages: "All my life, I have believed in the independence of editors, and the new editor...
...flexibility to the curriculum, the report urges a reduction in the amount of factual information and memorization pressed upon the student, and a greater emphasis on elective courses. The report recommends the teaching of a "core curriculum" which would be required of all students and would consist of material that all future physicians must learn. In addition, students would spend a large part of their time on elective courses...
Part-Time Professors. Mainly because of dismally low salaries, most Latin American faculties consist of part-time teachers whose main interest is in their outside jobs in law, medicine or politics. At San Marcos, only 57 of 1,344 professors teach fulltime, have little opportunity or incentive to do scholarly research. In inflation-ridden Brazil, where professors seldom make more than $200 a month, university teachers moonlight on two or three different jobs to make ends meet. Understandably, a Buenos Aires student complains: "It is very difficult to study with professors who very often have less knowledge than those being...
Biology students and scientists will study animal behavior and the relationship of plants and animals to their environment at the Concord Field Station. This outdoor laboratory will consist of 700 acres in the Estabrook Woods in Concord and a separate tract of 70 acres in Bedford...