Word: hut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Science Student Rebours lived for a month last summer with a wine-soaked old biffin (rubbish forager) named Jean-not. He shared a filthy hut at the rear of a cafe with Jeannot and the biffin's sidekick, an evil-tempered, alcoholic tramp named Tintin, who has since died of delirium tremens. Rebours' total expense account of about $19.50 included 14 Camembert cheeses, 20 loaves of bread, six helpings of fried potatoes bought to celebrate Jeannot's discovery of some marketable shoes, plus 190 glasses of wine downed to keep up with his tipsy pals. But just...
...strong on farm supports, reclamation, competitive coexistence with Russia, civil rights, etc.-as opposed to an "intellectual" or "New York" liberal - inter ested "only in civil rights and immigra tion." As a Senator. Humphrey has worked hard and with some success at winning the regard of conservative Southern politicos, hut as a presidential candidate, he still cannot realistically expect Southern sup port. This pains Humphrey. "I can do pretty good." he says, "in campaigning among the liberal Southerners." The Humphrey camp bases its strategic presidential planning on the argument that the Democratic balance of power shifted westward in the last...
...some schools the success of the program depends on one interested person, and if that person moves away, as a member of the Lexington system did, that school has no hesitation about pulling out of the project. Cambridge, the most logical place for the HUT, has shown no interest so far, but Herzog hopes as the project gains stature Cambridge will become involved. Cambridge schools, significantly, have not accepted apprentice teachers from the MAT program at the Graduate School of Education either...
Supporters of the HUT see this program as not only an aid to the quantitative problem but also a way of solving the qualitative shortage. Participating undergraduates are notably well-trained in their respective fields...
...Undergraduate Teachers could be a very effective antidote to the Boston area teaching probrem--as well as an interesting "extra-curricular" for energetic students.ROSSITER AND NICHOLS SUGGEST Gone With the Wind and Uncle Tom's Cabin to a Brazilian sophomore at Newton interested in the American Civil War. The HUT's have just explained "abolitionism...