Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They must now work with the "Upward Bound" staff to develop the "core curriculum" of reading skills, mathematics and social studies that they will begin to teach during the summer...
Like most tough films, Shock Corridor has a core of sentimentality. Its ending, however, doesn't falter: Fuller undercuts the expected resolution with a note of quiet prolonged horror. Fuller's movies must be seen to be believed; they can't adequately be described. Shock Corridor is not often shown, and the Adams House Film society is performing a small public service in screening it. It is an extremely important film, and perhaps a great...
...waited as patiently as they could for the Messiah and the Lord's Kingdom that would right all earthly wrongs. The Moslems told one another that patience was "the key to Paradise" and "a gift that Allah gives only to those he loves." Patience, in short, was the core of religion in a world where life was hard, society was static and hope lay in the hereafter. Patience meant resignation-a necessary quality for tillers of the soil and fishers of the sea, whose control over what happened to them was marginal. In such a frustrating scheme of things...
...fantastic scale. Even for small nations, several man-years of effort would be necessary to incorporate all the fine-grained statistics need for an effective plan. Although each nation requires a different population policy in accordance with its particular development program, the computer could easily adapt its core of "hard knowledge" gained from research in the field...
...looking for a sense of community, don't come to Leverett. There is no prevailing ethos here, no "stereotype," and little binding power. Each person moves in a hazily-defined clique, the core of which is usually his roommates. Not that it is at all difficult to meet your fellow residents--the organization of the dinning room promotes gregariousness. But if you do meet them, it will not be through a common interest in Leverett House per se. Leverett is composed primarily of people who have interests outside the House and want a place to live while they pursue these...