Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When social relations broke up, the psychology element just went back to the psychology department, and the anthropology part just went back to anthropology," Sorenson says. "But the sociologists had no one to go back to, so these few guys had to try and come up with a sociology department by themselves...
...element of surprise that is most unsettling to executives confronted by sudden catastrophe. Says Fink: "The savviest chief executive in the world often falls victim to a kind of paralysis when a crisis strikes." Any kind of conditioning may thus be comforting in a crunch. Says Jean Lipman-Blumen, a professor at California's Claremont Graduate School's Executive Management Program: "The worst part of a crisis is being unprepared. By removing the unexpected quality you are removing that which is most unnerving...
...level of academic excellence did not dip. History Instructor Reavis Mitchell is articulate on the subject: "The quality hasn't suffered as much as the reputation. People equate leaky faucets and cold classrooms with the totality of education. I try to tell my students there has always been an element of suffering, unfortunately, in the black tradition of education...
Such acts as writing protest letters were a crucial element in his struggle for survival. Another was his reading of Psalms, which he recited from memory in the punishment cells, where all books were forbidden. While there he had no opportunity to lie down during the day, and at night a wood-and-metal board was put in his cell for sleeping. "Of course, there are no blankets and no warm clothes," he says. The menu: black bread one day, followed by a day of "very poor" hot food. "This went on for 30 and sometimes 40 consecutive days." While...
...victorious Offutt gesturing on the front page. The Dudley House incident, which took up a good forty minutes of heated debate, was mentioned nowhere. On Tuesday the Dudley House incident received four paragraphs buried in the Offutt follow-up article, and then only as a minor element of the Offutt-Melissa Lane controversy...