Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pulse racing. Yet there are many striking and subtly disconcerting papers tacked away in the stacks. For example, how did Rand researchers get the extensive bibliographical data they included in a profile done in the late '60s of an elite six-man Vietcong guerilla unit fighting in the Mekong Delta? The report doesn't say, but it does outline each man's background, psyche and personal beliefs. The extent of the researchers' knowledge is striking. Their ability to gather so much information on even presumably hostile people is disturbing...
...Delta's Sunset...
Kleinfelder predicts that this growing popularity will force small colleges like Delta State and Immaculata, which now lead the rankings, out of these top slots, because they "won't be able to keep up with larger colleges in recruiting women players...
...kind of art, one was expected to be "against" others. Besides, a new class of collectors, anxious to commit their money only to sure bets?to what would be Historically Inevitable, to the mainstream of culture?wanted authorities. Not today. The American mainstream has fanned out into a delta, in which the traditional idea of an avant-garde has drowned. Thus, in defiance of the dogma that realist painting was killed by abstract art and photography, realism has come back in as many forms as there are painters...
...hazing does not result in death, of course, but if the practice is not always dangerous, it is often demeaning. At Michigan State University hazing was banned by 1950, but it remains an integral part of initiation rites at several fraternities. Senior Steve Ryckman lost interest in joining the Delta Sigma Phi house last year after he developed a burn on his nose from being forced to rub it along a carpet. "They wanted to see how much they could humiliate you," he recalls. "It was degrading." On the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, nearly two-thirds...