Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indians roamed the plains. Those who did were poor and, by later standards, unimpressive. Population pressure increased, forcing some tribes into grasslands. At the same time, Indians realized the horse offered the speed needed to hunt buffalo extensively. Not until then did any Plains tribes begin to prosper, let alone thrive. Only then did the buffalo hunt, made feasible by the horse, become the tribes' mainstay. Only then did the cultures undergo rapid adaptation and change. As warring and raiding became increasingly important, horses, wives and scalps signified wealth and success. The stereotypical Plains Indians came into being...
...ethnographies, let alone novels about native Americans, have been written by women. Rarer still are those that focus on women. But Hill does not offer a fresh perspective. By being true to the Mahto, a male-dominated society, Hill tells her tale through primarily male eyes. Her women, though they win sympathy and admiration, are secondary characters. They are either treated as such by their men or, if not, two out of three times they end up dying. Their deaths--Wanagi's and Ahbleza's wives die--only strengthen the men's resolve to be pure and unselfish; neither takes...
...appendage to Harvard, a few rented classrooms that offered extra dollars to Crimson faculty members who chose to come and lecture to the ladies. The school was chartered to offer women "equal access" to a Harvard education, but not until 1943 did Harvard, its enrollment reduced by the war, let most Radcliffe women into its classes. Harvard's undergraduate library remained closed to Cliffies until 1967; the first joint commencement of men and women was held in 1970. Declaring that "there is not enough trust, not enough respect" between the two colleges, Horner's predecessor, Biologist Mary Bunting...
...more for experiment and developing new hardware. As Chrysler President Lee lacocca notes: "At Chrysler, if I had three potentially big-selling cars, I would have to choose one to go with. At Ford you'd say 'go with two'. At GM they say, 'Bullshit, let's go with all three...
First off, analytical scrutiny of happiness should not be confused with preaching about it. Books hustling formulas and drills that are supposed to produce happiness circulate these days in numbers that are too great to count, let alone mention. These products of the booming feel-good industry invariably try to evoke happiness, but they seldom describe or analyze it. That, of course, is the fascination of the scientific challenge. The feelgood trade's blizzard of lighter-than-air tracts proves nothing whatever about happiness except that a lot of people are willing to pay for help in pursuing...