Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full Faculty will meet today, and will probably decide the fate of the proposed Core Curriculum...
When Hoover died in 1972, Gray took over and immediately scotched a plan to promote Adams again. Instead, trying to rid the bureau of hard-core Hooverites, Gray ordered Adams out of headquarters, to the backwater office in San Antonio. (Many veteran agents believe that Adams urged Attorney General Bell to prosecute Gray for the Weatherman break-ins to even the score...
...drama itself was cunningly comprehensive, deploying its characters to arrive always at the right time for major events, like figures in 19th century novels heavy with coincidence. But for all its worthy exertions, the series at its core was curiously passionless. An accumulation of small anomalies diminished it. Dr. and Mrs. Weiss behaved with such genteel forbearance down to the last horror of the Zyklon B showers that their journey seemed like Mr. and Mrs. Miniver Go to Auschwitz. The lovers, Rudi and Helena, romped in the Ukraine wearing clothes that looked like peasant chic from Bloomingdale...
Advances are also coming from noncorporate R. and D.: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently demonstrated an experimental heat-storing ceiling tile made of concrete with a core of heat-retentive salts, which is capable of providing 75% to 80% of a house's heat. In Britain, Patscenter International, a well-respected research group, has discovered a still secret way of making photovoltaic panels at a fraction of the current price; panels to power a small family house, it says, would cost about...
...core of Monet's achievement was his sense of time. He was fascinated by the discontinuous nature of reality: by the fact that, as a Greek sophist put it, you cannot step into the same river once, for it changes as the foot enters. Monet's Giverny paintings make up the most sustained and intelligent meditation on transience by a great artist since-what? Leonardo's water drawings? Probably, for although Monet's fellow impressionists also predicated their images on the moment, none of them was able to go so far in the direction of displaying...