Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Duke of Bedford...
...schools' monopoly on teaching. So have industrial training courses, private computer schools and burgeoning apprenticeship programs for high school students. Peer matching is now performed by a company that arranges telephone "conference calls" among people with similar interests (TIME, Jan. 11). A recent Supreme Court decision (Griggs v. Duke Power Co.) banned exclusionary aptitude tests for men who wanted to advance within a company. The law may eventually require employers to hire people on the basis of their actual skills-whether or not they have a degree. In these areas, at least, Illich may not be advocating a revolution...
...Even Guest Star Dizzy Gillespie, something of a master blender himself, had to take notice. The loudspeakers could not quite conceal the virtuosity of the young players and their apparent ability to make music out of anything and everything. Such a meeting of diverse idioms seemed to bear out Duke Ellington's famous prediction about the pop scene. "Soon," said the Duke, "it'll all be just music; you won't have to say whether it's jazz or not, just whether you like...
Alternative careers also include (mostly low paying) with a basic commitment to service or to social change. At Duke, alternatives placement is primarily involved in informing students about such organizations as VISTA, the Peace Corps and the Teacher Corps (which still attract about 15,000 people of all ages annually and are being melded into one organization called the Action Corps), and the Office of Economic Opportunity. At Michigan State University, which runs the nation's biggest college placement operation, all 1,200 copies of each issue of its Vocations for Social Change newsletter are eagerly snapped up. It advertises...
...love, cherish and obey, till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance." Despite the escapades of its founder. King Henry VIII, the Church of England has always taken those venerable words of the wedding service literally. The Anglican stand against divorce cost the Duke of Windsor his throne and Princess Margaret her first love. Peter Townsend. The same rule holds for the Episcopal Church in the U.S., and the late Bishop James A. Pike quit the church because it refused to sanction his third marriage...