Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going as far as Fore most of the large Foundations required proof that the program would succeed--more than "something ." As they could present such proof, and as their chief fund raiser persisted in judging foundations to be the only major source support, the committee was final forced to content themselves with $200 worth of donations from Harvard alumni and other private individuals...
...Harvard often sound coldly formal and abstract a study of learning as the interaction of human beings is a welcome thing. Learning should be a dialogue between men, as well as the imparting of a discipline; frequently what is of lasting value in a course is not its content, but the chance it has offered to meet a great teacher. In the most recent Harvard Educational Review there is an article by Dean Whitla, instructor in Education and Director of the Office of Tests, concerned with education as the interaction of human beings. Part of a forthcoming book...
...exceptional things in their field ... are makes the whole field come alive or speak to you..." Yet even where the graduates disagreed on researcher vs. teacher, there was a consensus that the appeal of a good teacher was not only intellectual, but moral. They retained not so much the content of the lecture or course, but the style of thought and behavior of the teacher: "You're always going to forget what they say to you ... but you can never forget his love and his devotion for it, this you will never forget. At times you can recall some...
Burdick was living at the University of California, and the Navy had stationed Lederer in Honolulu, where he still lives. After both had done a considerable amount of independent research and formed definite ideas on the content of the proposed book, Lederer flew to California for a weekend. While there, he and Burdick outlined every chapter even remotely possible--over 60, of which about 20 were finally used. Lederer then returned to Honolulu, and the actual writing was begun...
Cain & Abel. Author Wheeler paces his novel skillfully by uncorking surprises in the relation of white with white and black with black. His analysis of race prejudice itself packs no surprises and probes no great psychological depth, since he is content to argue that hate, like love, is blind. Even near novel's end, Matt and Lamar are scarcely better brothers under the skin than Cain and Abel. They agree only that their children may learn to live together without racial conflict and deserve the chance...