Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking at a Leverett-Dunster House panel discussion, Lacerda said there was little popular appeal in Latin America for the idea of a Common Market outlined at the conference...
...combination of long-range financial aid, reduced grade pressure, and a more structured plan of study make this type of Ph.D. reform an excellent idea. But the fact that the plan would work well for some does not mean that it would work well for all. There are some students who want an unstructured, perhaps even relaxed, graduate school career. Some like to teach sections for more than two years, and become very good at it and popular with undergraduates. While some structure is desirable, to attempt to give the Ph.D. program the rigidity of the M.D. or LL.B...
...idea of trial marriage is nothing new; secular freethinkers have been proposing it for a number of years. But facing the large number of youthful weddings that end in divorce, some reputable Christian theologians today are cautiously debating whether temporary liaisons make good common as well as spiritual sense...
Paying an Indemnity. Another theologian intrigued by the idea of trial marriages is William Hamilton of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, one of the leading "Death-of-God" thinkers, who suggests that a betrothal period in which sexual relations are licit would actually be in accord with the marital patterns that prevailed in the time of Christ. Under early Jewish custom, couples who became betrothed often lived as man and wife, without being required to enter permanent marriage. By this custom, if either party objected to formalizing the union, it could be dissolved by a religious court...
...Student power," however, does get manipulated by many people for many reasons. The Left embraces the idea, lends its advice and some leadership, and builds up every application of it into evidence that the revolution might really yet come. The New Right takes it as a target to energize its support. TV and the press find it colorful and vivid material. As a result, it gains attention far beyond its actual significance...