Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which differed from the state-wide legislation, has recently gone through the throes of re-evaluating its rent rules. Cambridge and Somerville have implemented the provisions of the state's law for five years, and the town of Lynn has scheduled a November referendum on whether it should follow suit...
...credit/non-credit basis represents a clear attempt to force professors to grade courses more strictly. If the recommendation is passed, students will be unable to take Nat Sci 36 to fill their General Education requirements. It is a course with obvious political content. But because its instructors do not follow the kind of grading practices the Faculty Council wishes to see enforced, a radical perspective on biological determinism will be virtually eliminated from the University's course offerings...
What results from this greenhouse approach to writing is not so much an interpretive autobiography as the most comprehensive lab report in the history of science. In exhaustive--and exhausting--detail, we follow Skinner through a curious childhood and a lonely, almost morose, adolescence in a drab Pennsylvania town. Skinner recounts Kollege Kid pranks and personality molding teachers at Hamilton College, a year as a struggling writer, and a bohemian period in Greenwich Village...
Instead, Skinner constructs a meticulous chronological listing of his life's events. (A short section at the end which backtracks to follow the thread of psychological curiosity through his life is an exception.) But Skinner has a purpose for the resulting "and then" paratactical tedium of his style. Even his detractors laud his achievements in the development of teaching machines and in animal training, and grudgingly admit the success of behavior modification with autistic children and the mentally ill. But the concept of a genetically-and environmentally-programmed existence, of an a-responsible, un-free person rebounding from punishment...
...aristocratic comeuppance. To disinfect the noxious influence of democracy and such repellant notions as equality, invariably supported by the wrong-side-of-the-tracks populace, he prescribes large doses of snobbery, social climbing and downright opportunism. Though you yourself may be an uncultured slob, you need only follow these rules to eliminate any obstacle blocking your successful rise in society...