Word: hyman
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There was exultation among activist Jewish women that the change had finally come. "This is one of those days when you have a sense of participating in Jewish history, not just teaching it," said Paula Hyman, dean of the seminary's undergraduate division. Judith Hauptman, a professor of Talmud at the seminary who has long taught rabbinical students, declared that "now I'm going to have the option of becoming one myself...
After having spent six years away from the classroom, the first weakness I noticed in formal education was the way it trains young minds to see the world through the processes of categorization and idealization. Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear submarine and a prominent critic of the American educational system, visited our sophomore tutorial last year and emphasized the fact that history texts make past events look like the products of superhumans and rigid ideal, when in reality most were the result of a fluid mixture of chance and compromise made by people much like ourselves. He hammered...
Former President Richard M. Nexon declined an invitation to the conference citing a conflicting engagement. Gottlieb added Still he noted the assemblage of chief executives will be the largest since Regan and the three former Presidents gathered last spring to celebrate the birthday of retired Admiral Hyman G. Rickover...
AFTER HAVING SPENT six years away from the classroom, the first weakness I noticed in formal education was the way it trains young minds to see the world through the processes of categorization and idealization. Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear submarine and a prominent critic of the American educational system, visited our sophomore tutorial last year and emphasized the fact that history texts make past events look like the products of superhumans and rigid ideals, when in reality most were the result of a fluid mixture of chance and compromise made by people much like ourselves. He hammered...
...abetted by modern "experts," among them Saul Bellow, Susan Sontag, Irving Howe and Bruno Bettelheim, in effect playing themselves playing themselves. Like Allen, they have perfect pitch. But Allen skewers not only the modern TV form but the loopy manner of the show's antique sources. Dick Hyman contributes songs like You May Be Six People, but I Love You that catch the flavor of hasty topicality, and Cinematographer Gordon Willis recaptures the conventions of oldtime photography. The match between his footage and genuine historical shots is perfect...