Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fill a genuine lack in their experience. Seven of 14 who took one Dartmouth class on Kierkegaard billed themselves as agnostics. Students who study religion as a snap generally get their heads snapped back. For a doctorate in the subject at Columbia, graduate students need a working knowledge of Greek, Latin, Sanskrit and Hebrew, besides French and German. "You don't get marks for piety," says Stanford's Brown...
...complete a sentence, or fill in a blank in a sentence. By Book 21 he has been introduced to all the toughest exceptions to the phonetic rules of English. His reading vocabulary totals 2,892 words -including deceitful, labyrinth and ridiculous-and he is reading action-packed stories about Greek mythological heroes. Teachers normally limit the children's reading sessions to no more than a half-hour. In that time a child responds affirmatively about 100 times. And each response, says Sullivan, means that "learning takes place inside the learner...
Jared Sparks was President of Harvard from 1849 to 1853. Although the University was at that time moving away from its emphasis on Greek and Roman studies. Sparks was a classicist through and through, and his house reflected his taste...
...house, built in the 1830's, represents a form of Greek revival that may have been peculiar to Cambridge. Except for a couple of paint jobs and the removal of some pillars to the basement of the neighboring Swedenborgian Church, the exterior of the Sparks House remains what it was a century...
...Caudillo. As a result, he is cordially distrusted by many Franco stalwarts. Much more manageable, they feel, would be Don Juan's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 27; Franco sent him through Spain's three military academies and gave him a Madrid palace after his wedding to Greek Princess Sophie. Trouble is, Juan Carlos will not cooperate. "I'll never, never accept the crown as long as my father is alive," he maintains, and there is every indication that he means it. In any case, he has proved unexciting in his few public appearances...