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...here he was now, relaxing in his slide-back seat, murmuring about how long the blade on that stick was going to be, how curved, how illegal. I felt a sudden, but distinct, distrust of Joe Cavanagh. Power corrupts and all that...
Richard Jones and George Dennison offer us drastically different answers to these question, and it is crucial that their answers be considered in juxtaposition. Their books represent no less than the culminations in educational thought by two mutually exclusive and often antagonistic groups of writers, groups with distinct (if not antithetical) styles, politics, and influences. The fist is the large body of professional academics, mainly psychologists like Jones and Harvard's Jerome Bruner, who act as consulting experts and planners for the public school system. The other group includes a wide range of radical or "romantic" critics-maverick academics (Goodman...
...Since Harvard's winning percentage was and should be next Saturday, slightly higher than the Eagles, the Crimson had assumed that it would have the distinct advantage of confronting BC on friendly ice. The top four teams have home-ice privileges for the first game...
...heavier than typical land rocks, and bears other similarities to specimens found on the ocean floor. For another, the desert regions of the Afar triangle are covered with a thick layer of evap-orites, the salty debris left behind after seawater evaporates. Tazieff and his colleagues also found distinct traces of coral in the area's lava beds, plus a Stone Age ax that was actually encrusted with seashells-a sign that the relic was once covered by seas...
...directors of the exhibition assert that the time bridging the traditional periods of Romanesque and Gothic has its own style, distinct from the other two. With an aesthetic between the geometric conception of Romanesque and the lush stylization of Gothic, the artists of the era 1200 depict graceful, expressive bodies that never overstep the refinement of their form...