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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...isn't. Many--maybe even the majority--of graduate students are wonderful teachers. As long as the situation is carefully controlled and regulated, the curriculum substantially benefits from graduate students working closely with professors to provide undergraduates in large courses with close attention...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Why Not the Best? | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...California. "There is a tendency to overlook the aesthetic quality of a building and just keep it because it is old," says Robert Winter, a cultural historian at Occidental College in Los Angeles. "Too often the reason for declaring something ((a historic landmark)) is sentimental." Sentiment is inadmissible? Isn't the new feeling for preservation and for cities inherently romantic, clearheadedness clouded by a large dose of nostalgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Spiffing Up The Urban Heritage | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

This version of the The Game falls in the middle of Harvard's road to the NCAA Final Four, but Crimson Coach Mike Getman isn't taking the contest lightly...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Men Booters Battle Yale Today | 11/21/1987 | See Source »

Brecht's analogy, while apt, isn't always historically accurate. Brecht means for Ui's blackmailing Dogsborough (David Cope) for power in Chicago to imply that Hitler blackmailed President Hindenburg in order to become chancellor, which is not necessarily true. Also, Brecht's meticulous parallel fails to take into account anti-Semitism...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: An Irresistible Rise | 11/20/1987 | See Source »

...kind of share Roger Brockett's point of view that this is the correct thing to do from an academic standpoint even if it isn't what industry is crying for," said Sastry...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Of Microchips and Men | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

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