Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal for a three and a half-year seminar program, to begin in the freshman year, was made last month by Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology. Bruner recently called for active debate on his proposal, in order to "stir the pot." He also declared himself interested in any other proposals which might alleviate "the lack of intellectual excitement" in the present system...
Other suggestions include a voluntary tutorial set up as a half-course extending throughout the year, and compulsory tutorial with a general examination at the end of the Senior year...
...heroine (Bardot), according to the synopsis, is "a semiprofessional prostitute"; half the time she makes love for money, half the time for fun. One day when business is slow, she and another streetwalker hold up a jewelry store. Her accomplice is caught. Bardot runs off to see a famous lawyer (Gabin). How will she pay his fee? Calmly she raises her skirts above her hips, suggests that he attach her source of income...
...falls in love with Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, learns for the first time what real sex is all about. Sir Clifford, of course, is incensed at Connie's betrayal of her class. Why make love to a workingman? By this time Sir Clifford is more than half in love with his lady attendant, and the book ends with Mellors working as a farm laborer and waiting for Connie to join...
...does not overcultivate the acres. When Chark, the German, tells them of his plan to search for a gold-carrying plane that has crashed, all agree to stick together. Ridiculously ill-equipped, they begin a journey whose terrors bring out the best and worst in them all. Starving, sick, half-crazed, they stumble along after the German, take turns carrying the child and the box of crucifixes that the priest intends for native Indians. The ceaseless procession of horrors is almost too much-but not quite. Author Lacour tips his pen with a searching probe of each character...