Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today, millionaire Indian merchants and manufacturers occupy some of Nairobi's finest homes; but the Asians are for the most part small shopkeepers-duka wallahs to the Africans-and junior civil servants, who have never found middle-class security in their middle-class vocations. African nationalists have long complained that the Asians are a clannish, alien people whose only interest in Africa lies in the profits to be wrung from African customers. "The Indians are opportunists and quislings," cries Nyasaland's Prime Minister Hastings Banda. "Everywhere in the country they are taking business from African businessmen." The Asians...
...education professors. Instead of being set off by itself, Wisconsin's school of education consists of every professor throughout the university (some 800) who has even one teacher candidate in one of his classes. Harvard's Acting Dean of Education Judson Shaplin calls Wisconsin "one of the finest places in the country for the preparation of teachers." But to N.C.A.T.E., Wisconsin's "all-university" approach is not "bringing about the kind of coordination necessary." As Stiles sees it, N.C.A.T.E. is basically fearful that pedagogy is losing out to liberal arts at Wisconsin...
Vocal and continued criticism is an important means of applying pressures for badly needed reform. The Faculty Committee on Athletics owes Harvard's finest hockey team in a decade at least this much...
...source of the dissatisfaction is most decidedly not the college's academic quality. Mount Holyoke is unquestionably one of the finest and most rigorous women's colleges in the country. Probably its grates academic asset is the genuinely close contact that students have with faculty members; all of Mount Holyoke's classes are small by Harvard standards. Furthermore, the College offers numerous seminars and a liberal independent study program in which even freshmen may regularly participate...
...modern star system is due to type casting. Versatility is no longer appreciated, either by public or industry. "Clark Gable and Gary Cooper are two examples of type actors, who played the same part throughout their acting careers. The greatness of Alec Guinness, in her opinion the finest modern actor, lies in his ability to completely assume the role he is playing, and not expand the part to fit his own personality. Miss Gish thinks that such acting lightweights as Sandra Dee and Tuesday Weld are a group of mediocrities; "You can't tell them apart...