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These words serve as the opening to one of Godfrey Blunden's chapters. They might well be the emblem of his book. The lost works that he has sought to retrieve from oblivion are those of the crew of H.M.S. Endeavor, a fat British collier fitted out as a naval vessel and dispatched in 1768 to explore the Pacific...
...programming courses in high schools and colleges to make sure they get more. They also have lots of money--about $10 billion. They have ensured their security during this early stage of their development by making themselves indispensable to the advancement of knowledge in almost every field of human endeavor. Indeed, they have caused an explosion of activity. It might almost be said that in creating more work than they have saved, computers have programmed society for their...
...disingenuous of Jeffrey Howard, ex-President of the Afro-American Association, to turn my effort to identify the nature of some Negro students' criticism of Social Sciences 5 into an endeavor to exacerbate these students' relationships to the course. I remain of the opinion that racial bigotry and anti-intellectualism motivate their criticism, and if to state this inflames the black critics of Social Sciences 5 then they ought to grow...
...much publicized by urban politicians and ghetto leaders, it would seem that Unity faces a dilemma. The bank must be concerned with extending new loan oportunities to people who may not have upheld their commitments in the past and must be concerned with its own success as a financial endeavor. Sneed and Fulp see this problem differently. "There are factions of both the black and white community that are watching to see whether we are going to pass the supreme test of survival," Sneed said. But Fulp refuses to succumb to this pressure...
...Rudd is always being asked to explain things and is badgered by the press to vocal exhaustion. However, one can't help but feel that his tendency to let the urgency of political endeavor get in the way of a careful choice of his words is a little scary...