Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decided that the cause has essentially triumphed. The President alluded to this problem by warning of the "danger of growing soft with victory." Conservative financial backing is "needed now as never before," Reagan told his followers, because "the Washington liberals and the San Francisco Democrats aren't extinct"--the latter a reference to the 1984 Democratic Convention that nominated Mondale...
According to observers, that's exactly what happened in Soc Rel. The department grew "wings," divisions of scholars with similar interests. "Social Relations served a very good purpose, but I felt it fractured in the latter years," says Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences. According to Pattullo, Social Relations came to function as four separate departments under a larger framework. Others say that by the 1950s the department was already tenuring scholars for achievement in particular fields, having little regard for a candidate's contributions to "social relations" broadly understood...
Suspense comes with the underhanded, dastardly intrigues of Lord Guilford's father, the historically in famous Duke of Northumberland. The controlling force behind the during the latter portion of Edward VI's reign, it was Northumberland's lust for power that prompted him to arrange the marriage between his rather impish Beau-Brummel-of-a-son and the potential inheritress Jane, then fourth in line for the throne...
...some point, we will need to start to choose between traditional and non-traditional programs, and to treat the latter as integral parts of our educational enterprise, not as marginal remnants at the edge of Harvard's affairs...
...with this movie. Adaptations of novels are harder to perfect than are original screenplays. The Color Purple poses an especially difficult problem for the potential adaptor, both because the book was widely read and because it adheres to the problematic first-person narrative format. Spielberg seems to realize the latter difficulty and attempts to avoid that puzzle simply by abandoning Celie's first-person narration within the first half hour of the movie. Another difficulty is length. The movie clocks in at two and a half hours, approximately the same time it takes to read the novel: Purple may well...