Word: developable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chatichai Choonhaven announced that Thailand had reached an agreement with the U.S. to actually begin the military exodus. Even though Thai soldiers are skirmishing with Communist-backed insurgents along the country's eastern border, Bangkok has sought to open diplomatic relations with Hanoi, and is also trying to develop economic and diplomatic ties with Peking...
Wallace says that one purpose of M.I.U. is to develop a curriculum that can be used on the maharishi's planned campuses in Thailand, England,'Canada, Norway and France. Last month, on his first visit to the campus, the maharishi urged students to spread the gospel of TM: "The students must go and create an atmosphere of orderliness in the brains of people residing in this state." He then climbed aboard a pink turboprop and flew...
...tempted to read Riley's color as light, mixed and reflected in the white spaces between the stripes-but it is a highly constructed, finished sort of light, unrelated to nature. "My pictures need time to develop on the retina," says Riley. "The first contact is always a bit off-putting and abrasive. You have to go with it. It's like taking a cold shower: a shock at first, but then it feels good...
This conception of the Institute is based upon the need to strengthen the body of knowledge underlying the field of Afro-American Studies and to develop a cadre of qualified teachers for the future. At present, less than one percent of PhD's in the country are black. Since professors of Afro-American Studies are likely to be black, and since the proportion of black PhD's is woefully small, an Institute which supports and encourages graduate students in the field will clearly fill a vital need. Moreover, as in the case of many newly established fields, it is important...
...disagree very strongly with your statement that "the university's disregard of the DISC proposal again demonstrates a lack of real commitment to strengthening Afro-American Studies at Harvard." A succession of reviews by faculty members and others have supported the formation of a research and graduate institute to develop the body of knowledge and increase the number of teacher-scholars in the field of Afro-American Studies. Those who have supported this concept believe that such an institute will strengthen Afro-American Studies just as similar institutes have proved useful in many other fields of study. You apparently disagree...