Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Lowell confidently expected that the new tutorial son would become the core of all upperclass studies, and that the wide assortment of courses would diminish to a few large basic introductory ones. Here he was wrong. Departments still encouraged their new men by allowing them to add new courses in their particular specialties...
...great opponent is the Soviet Union." Those words lay at the core of Secretary of Defense Marshall's rebuttal of Douglas MacArthur; their disagreement over what Russia might do in Asia, Marshall said, is "the principal basis of the difference of opinion...
...making composition the core of the required General Education courses, the Committee hopes to emphasize that good ideas demand lucid expression in all academic pursuits. The plan provides for a half-course, required for all freshmen, which will extend-over two terms. Since the students in the class '55 will have to take three G.E. courses for their degree, they will be expected to enter at least one in their freshman year in order to get a background of ideas for the composition course. Beyond this outline, many important details will decide the fate of the Committee's proposal...
...Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. There are five major festivals in the Jewish year, but the weekly observance of the Sabbath-from Friday's sunset to Saturday after sundown-as a day in which no work may be done, except for self-protection or to save life, is the core of Jewish religious practice. Rabbi Bernstein takes pains to point out how this custom of a day of rest "hewn from the social consciousness of a little desert tribe became in time an established practice for the entire civilized world...
...Reds organized during 1949's Manhattan trial of eleven U.S. Communist leaders. The personal torment of the picture's hero (Frank Lovejoy), suffering the bitter contempt of his anti-Communist son and brothers without being able to let them in on his masquerade, gives the picture a core of human appeal...