Word: learns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprised to learn that the acronym ECAR stands for East Central Reliability Council. While visiting Pebble Beach, Calif., I was informed that the Monterey Peninsula was peopled mostly by ECARs: Elderly. Conservative. Affluent Republicans...
Within a few days of their arrival in Washington as part of an orientation program to learn "survival skills," the students had toured supermarkets, drugstores and department stores and eaten at a fast-food restaurant. Said Institute Director Robert Fox: "They didn't seem terribly wild about the food." The scholars saw a bit of TV. Said Chemical Engineer Hsü Hsien, after seeing his first U.S. commercials: "I enjoy watching them. It is a sign of American culture, isn't it?" The visitors were also introduced to the mysteries of Western pantyhose by Newsweek Correspondent Mary Lord...
...were struck that year, Graham and his colleagues rushed out the Boston Crimson, a four-page paper that focused on local news and had a circulation of 30,000. After graduation and a tour as a specialist 5 Army information officer in the Viet Nam bush, Graham decided to learn about Washington by spending 18 months as a beat cop in a tough southeast neighborhood. At the Post, he has worked as reporter, salesman, night production manager and sports editor; he also served as a correspondent for Newsweek in New York City and Los Angeles. He became the Post...
...next 40 years, until she dies in 1901, Victoria refuses to let Edward, who is portrayed in his maturity by Timothy West, learn the craft of statesmanship or take on any of the duties that normally fall to the Prince of Wales. Edward becomes a public wastrel, negligent of both his beautiful Danish wife (portrayed in her later years by Helen Ryan) and his role as future King. Only when the old Queen dies does he come into his own, vowing to wear the crown with dignity, which indeed he does. Like Crosbie, West gives a finely tuned and modulated...
Goodfriend opened his Harvard journal this fall, when he began a year at the Graduate School of Education where he has been studying people working for their Doctorates of Education. This year's diary thus contains notes and sketches from his interviews with doctoral candidates. Goodfriend seeks to learn why and how people obtain Ed. D.s, and perhaps thereby to explain his sense of "disillusionment and despair" about the educational process. "The assumption is that people who come out of a prestigious school like Harvard have some impact on the educational system," he says, but cautions that although his paper...