Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SETTING: THE HALL OF MIRRORS, VERSAILLES, JANUARY 1871: In the palace of the Bourbons, the rulers of Germany's 25 independent and quarrelsome states gather to savor the fruits of their victory over France's armies. The Franco-Prussian War has given the Germans something that eluded them for centuries?unity. As the architect of that unity, Count Otto von Bismarck looks on, gripping the long spike of his Prussian helmet, while Prussia's King Wilhelm proclaims the establishment of the German Empire. Historian Thomas Carlyle hails the German victory in a letter to the Times of London: "That noble...
Heaving out the old curriculum, Allen & Co. reorganized departments into multidisciplinary "centers" that must rethink their goals every three years or automatically go out of business. Though timid undergraduates may still take old-fashioned teaching-methods courses, the adventuresome are free to gather credits where they may. In the "humanistic education" center, for example, students and professors join modified encounter groups to pinpoint the elusive emotional problems that may baffle them and the children they will teach. A doctoral student recently got credit for one self-designed unit of "watching Dwight Allen." Students also practice-teach while living full time...
...pursue two directions at once," explained Brown. "We're going to take this thing to the courts, and we've also got to gather community support for our position, and take it back to the City Council, and force them to do something...
...that they now should not confess. Then, apparently satisfied he had reached the audience he cared about, Manson said he would not repeat any of his testimony for the jurors. So they will not hear any defense witnesses after all. The attorneys, if they can find any pieces to gather, will present final arguments next week...
...women who are too busy studying the brain to bother with sorting out such semantic eels. The big conceptual problem has been to come up with a model, or analogue, that will explain the dynamics of learning and memory. Although there are minds that warp and others that gather wool, Lord Sherrington's definition of the brain as an "enchanted loom" is more poetic than precise. The electronic computer at first seems promising. Unhappily, though the brain generates and can be prodded by electrical impulses, the most sophisticated cybernetic device is still a primitive instrument when compared with...