Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distinct contrast to this edgy placement of Englishmen on Irish soil (a juxtaposition which comes up repeatedly in Trevor, and specifically in his latest novel, Fools of Fortune); a trilogy of stories entitled Matilda's England is a sublime, melancholic pattern of a woman's reminiscences of a life, of the eras of a country house, of tennis parties and unfulfilled relationships. Here is the retreat into the past, the solace of remembering old pleasures, the ghostly hovering of the past over present dissatisfaction that colors so much of Trevor's work...
...subgroups in the Core, only two are not closely related to Humanities and Social Sciences. The fact of the matter is that the Core is cluttered with Humanities requirements, some of which should not be distinct. The Literature and Arts requirement is a prime example. Literature and Arts A and B could be merged into one subgroup, designed to teach students about different forms of artistic expression without substantially changing the purposes currently defined by the program...
...approach that concentrated on teaching and learning was the main contribution of my book The Paideia Proposal. The favorable response that the program elicited focused on its recommendation of three distinct types of teaching and learning that must be operative throughout the twelve years of basic schooling. These methods are in contrast to the one kind of teaching that now dominates the scene, which is didactic instruction by lectures and textbooks...
...would demonstrate to national policymakers the urgency of an arms control agreement and grassroots frustration with current progress. That is insufficient justification to vote for such a drastic measure. For the unquantifiable, unclear benefit of "making a statement" which might affect national policy the law will have two distinct negative effects on Cambridge. One is its impact on jobs. The law will force at least one company to close down, and will send a bad message to others. Cambridge already has some of the strictest business regulations in the country, and the Nuclear Free question would make them even tighter...
...parental rights or disciplinary needs supercede the constitutional rights of American schoolchildren, then why not let petty authoritarian dictators paternally cattle prod their "child-like" political dissidents. That suck logic seens so natural rather than perversely twisted underlines a certain national moral psychosis. A student's right is a distinct set of projections, not just an abstract concept for memorization and regurgitation on the civics exam. If schools and the courts forget that, they can easily produce the most mathematical geniuses and moral fools--all with the discipline to make 1984 ring true...