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...first step in this revolution of consciousness is for all of us to learn to deprecate the old bad ways. We have to overcome whatever residue of the adversarial and the estranged clings to our attitude toward students. Too many teachers continue throughout their careers to dread their students and thus their classes. This dread has something to do with the fear of not knowing "enough." Everyone--starting with the teacher--has to feel free to say, "I don't know, but I can find out." Joseph S. Nye, professor of Government, who appeared in one of the Harvard-Danforth...

Author: By Margaret M. Gullette, | Title: Laughing and Learning | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...feel so down about it? Why is the stock market sliding? Why is Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker warning of a "clear and present danger"? Why is Congress in an uproar over the President's economic policy? Why, after little more than a year of recovery, is the dread word recession even being occasionally heard from the President's economic advisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Monster Deficit | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...KIND of day travelers dread and ticket agents loathe Ram and fog closed airports and delayed traffic across the Northeast for most of the afternoon, but as evening came the ceiling started to lift. At Kennedy Airport's international wing the few ticket agents still at their terminals were looking forward to going home after the long day of fending off customers who had connections or lost their luggage. A half hour before the nine O'clock flight was to leave for London an agitated elderly woman hurried up to the counter. "I'm sorry, this station's, station...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Lost in the Fog | 2/25/1984 | See Source »

...They have been appointing increasingly weaker leaders," he said "They dread nothing more than a strong leader...

Author: By Gregor F.L. Gruber, | Title: Experts Consider Future of Chernenko | 2/24/1984 | See Source »

...thinking kind of tracks together. You can dread something or you can think back to unpleasant features in previous campaigns and hope against hope that those things won't happen again. But we both knew it was a decision that had to be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with President Reagan | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

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