Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...author, like the hero, has no point of view about anything. Life seems to be a more or less incomprehensible flux of discontinuous events which lead to the grave. This none too original point of view is developed very skillfully, as in the use of the half-pedestrian, half-romantic oppression of the natives to keep the hero in proper perspective...
...dictum of May 1954, that "separate facilities are inherently unequal," applies even more to South Africa than it does to the American South. While Strijdom's right hand extends the ostensible goal of improved and racial interdependency, his left hand increasingly forces African blacks into a cultural and economic grave...
...tutorial system as it existed in the College of the mid-30's, nothing is a more nostalgic form of conversation. Invariably, Masters refer to the few years when virtually every student had an individual tutor, often a full professor or junior faculty member. But the system had grave difficulties and perhaps insoluble inner-conflicts, which exploded full-force in the face of President Conant...
Green & White. Handsome, grey-haired Carlo Lerici, who says "grave-robbing is the second oldest profession in the world," is an engineer whose family owns a steel mill in Milan. When he became interested in Etruscan tombs, one of his first steps was to get copies of a photographic air survey that Britain's Royal Air Force made of southern Etruria during World War II. Studied carefully, the photos often show hundreds of shadowy circles. These are Etruscan tombs, which affect slightly the fertility of the soil and therefore the darkness of the chlorophyll in green plants growing...
Another major problem put forward by Commager involved the growing distinction between a "first-class and a second-class" education. He termed this academic boundary line "a very grave danger, far more so than most people realize...