Word: fears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of excellent small-group teaching. What is teaching, at its very best, after all, than the interplay of people--the older ones who have the knowledge, the compassion, and the standards, and the younger ones who need all three? The current Expos director seems to disdain, even to fear, caring. Yet it is probably, in fact, for most of those freshmen who pass through his computer, the most valuable gift their teachers can give them...
Adams was then assistant conductor to Elliott Forbes, who conducted the group throughout the 1960s. When Forbes stepped down, Adams shifted the group's emphasis to Renaissance music. In 1971, when some people began to fear that the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society would be merged to fill the need for a mixed musical singing group in the University, Adams founded the Harvard-Radcliffe College Collegium Musicum, which he conducted until he left...
...most important reasons for this excessive caution, several panelists declared, is an exaggerated fear of becoming entangled in another Viet Nam-style war. As he lectures in the U.S., Akins reported, he asks whether the U.S. should fight against a Soviet invasion of Saudi Arabia-admittedly a most unlikely event, but one that in his mind would call for as massive a response as a Soviet attack on West Germany. Said he: "The answer is usually: 'We have to move in, we should move in, we must move in-but we wouldn't move...
...growing number of intellectuals, professionals and members of the middle class fear that instead of ushering in a new era of freedom, the revolution will result in an Islamic dictatorship as repressive as the Shah's regime. Those worries deepened last week when Khomeini passed along his guidelines for the reform of Iran's legal code. He ordered Justice Minister Assadollah Mobasheri to repeal all laws that "contravene Islam." Henceforth, all trials must end "in a final, absolute decision in a single phase." The right of women to seek divorces, established by a 1975 law enacted under...
...been removed or destroyed before the base was taken over, the episode raised new doubts about the security of the 77 advanced F-14 fighters that the U.S. has supplied to Iran. No American has been allowed to inspect them for three weeks, in part because the Iranians fear an attempt to destroy the equipment to prevent any possibility of its falling into Soviet hands. But the Carter Administration privately admits that there is little it can do to safeguard the planes. "They are entirely in the hands of the Iranians," said a U.S. intelligence officer last week. "They bought...