Word: foreing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charter--was definitely out. Memberships slumped, while dozens of fraternity and sorority houses closed their doors. "It was 'do your thing,' " recalls Mimi Turrill, 36, a Pi Beta Phi who graduated from the University of Colorado in 1970. "Women's lib was coming to the fore, and sorority women were thought of just as clones of each other." Says Jack Levin, a sociologist at Northeastern University in Boston: "It was an embarrassment to be a member of a fraternity...
...William F. Fore, communication secretary at the National Council of Churches, asserts that the televangelists "have been willing to buy enormous popularity, power and income at the expense of their own integrity." Measuring Christian teaching by the popular acclaim it wins, writes Australian Protestant Minister Peter Horsfield in Religious Television: The American Experience (1984), "has been rejected from the earliest beginnings of the Christian faith." Other critics say that TV subordinates the reflective aspects of Christianity to emotive material that affords instant gratification and entertainment. Political differences underlie some of the sniping, of course. Liberals are upset because their criticisms...
...interest in the neurological basis of behavior and the cognitive processes by which individuals understand their environments has come to the fore in psychology departments across the nation. Yale University Professor emeritus Irving L. Janis, an elder statesman of American psychology, calls growing interest in those two lines of inquiry, "the two great trends of today's psychology...
...substantive one about what any response should contain. As usual, the Administration split into naysayers, led by Weinberger, Perle and others at the Pentagon, and dealmakers, with Secretary of State George Shultz, other State Department officials, Arms Control Adviser Paul Nitze and National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane at the fore...
...bilingual education. The candidates who are best suited to tackle these issues are first-term CCA incumbent Frances H. Cooper and CCA challengers Sara O. Garcia, Richard Griffin '51, David P. Kennedy, and Larry Weinstein. Together, their experience in education can return the Cambridge public school system to the fore of urban systems nationwide...