Word: gender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oral-aural method state, a child learns his language habits only through constant exposure to and practice of a single tongue. The child does not think consciously, "Does this preposition take the dative case? Is the definite article placed before or after the past participle? What is the gender of this noun?" Rather, he learns almost instinctively what is correct and what is not. And it is precisely this sort of semi-innate knowledge which the direct method seeks to inculate. Not to think in English: In a nutshell, this epitomizes the aim of modern teachers of the modern languages...
...assistant professor or higher), the President, and the Undergraduate Council. In cases which demand disciplinary action, the University Committee of Discipline convenes. This committee consists of five men from the faculty or administration and three students from either the men's or women's Undergraduate Council, dependent upon the gender of the wrongdoer. "In cases that involve both a man and woman," Peters smilingly points out, "we have two separate hearings." The only appeal of the disciplinary committee's decisions must be directed to the President...
...biggest Liberace show in years -the trial of the high-tuned pianist's suit for libel against Connor and his paper. Before an overstuffed gallery of matronly bosoms, Liberace charged in London's Queen's Bench Division court that the offending column cast reflections on his gender by implying that he was less than a man: "This article has attacked me below the belt on a moral issue. On my word of God, on my mother's health, which is so dear to me, this article only means one thing, that I am a homosexual...
...Open to non-ROTC students with permission of the instructor," the course catalogue said. There was no gender qualification. The instructor seemed willing to give his permission...
...Mount Holyoke's president, Richard Glenn Gettell, noted, higher education for women has come a long way from "the earlier day of militant feminism. College has no gender today: both sexes can be awfully good students...