Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Americans cannot help but feel some satisfaction in a well-argued French brief that Europe should do as we do in modern business. The success of Europe in meeting our challenge is very much in our interest too. It is only in narrow and short-range terms that it is...
Under Jenkins' velvet exterior, though, ripples a thick political hide. As Aviation Minister in 1965-he became Home Secretary the same year-Jenkins withstood heavy Tory fire for canceling construction of three new types of planes and insisting that the British aviation industry reorganize. He firmly believes that the...
Stepping deftly from the example of Jefferson--who responded to this libel by sending one of the learned French gentlemen a stuffed black panther and a live moose--to the more general case, Commager suggested some of the effects of the fray for American history.
Paradoxically, such definiitons can become especially constricting in precisely those American colleges and universities that have in recent years become the most academically oriented and demanding. For, in these institutions, students may feel that they must continue to play from strength, and to go on doing as impressively as possible...
Gold: "What have you learned from Joyce?"