Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classes are enlivened by guest appearances-an insurance agent, realtor, clergyman, marriage counselor and banker. But the students sometimes have firsthand experience of their own. During one lecture on abortions an 18-year-old girl rose to announce that she had had three abortions herself. She was invited to take over the discussion. The final outside expert is a lawyer who explains how to file for divorce. Last year, as an added touch of realism, Allen brought in a recent-and embittered -divorcee to talk about financial problems. "She really gave the kids a jolt," he says. Toward...
...Cairo in October called for step-by-step phased negotiations between Israel and Egypt followed by talks between Jordan and Israel on the future of the West Bank?a program that now seems unlikely if not impossible. Kissinger will fly back to the area next week for a firsthand check on what the Arab decision does to his policy of "gradualism" in negotiations...
...letters snowballed into an invitation for Boston students to come down for a firsthand look-and the Charlotte students raised $600 to finance the trip...
...cell, he was subjected to a 32-hour stretch of unrelenting beatings and shocks administered through electrodes attached to various parts of his body. Reports of torture in Brazil's military jails have circulated for a decade, but Morris is the first American newsman to experience it firsthand. His ordeal seemed related to a TIME story last June on Recife Archbishop Dom Helder Camara, a frequent critic of Brazil's military government. Morris was held on vague -and false-charges of "subversive activities" for the Central Intelligence Agency. Despite a formal, forceful protest from U.S. Ambassador John Crinimins...
Kearns, 31, an associate professor of government at Harvard, is a former protegee of Lyndon Johnson. Unlike some psychohistorians who have roused skepticism with their long-distance analyses, she knew her subject at firsthand, and well. Her Wellfleet report on her book in progress on L.B.J., hailed as brilliant by several in attendance, grew out of the extraordinary role she played in Johnson's last years...