Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diologue, however, aspires to no higher level than sixth-grade graffiti. One example will do. Carmen and a rock singer-stud named Baby Lucas are drinking cocktails from baby bottles. She says, "Oh now I know why they call you Baby Lucas: you drink milk from a bottle." He says, "I'm even more of a baby than that...
Wilcox, who is chairman of the Committee on General Education, has recommended that students be allowed to take one of their three basic Gen Ed courses pass-fail and one of the middle-level courses required for distribution...
...answer fills 737 densely-packed pages. Coleman started by documenting the achievement gap between minority and majority children (Negroes, though of prime interest, were only one of several minority groups studied). To no one's surprise, he found minority children enter school at a lower achievement level than their majority counterparts, and fall further behind as their schooling progress. Coleman also discovered, again shocking few, that segregation is still the rule in U.S. schools. Sixtyfive per cent of all Negroes, and 80 per cent of all whites, attend schools filled 90 per cent by their own race...
Gould, rescued from the Crimson bench, finished his Harvard career with his finest performance of late. Fullback Dave Wright and inside Lutz Hoeppner, the other seniors in the starting lineup, played up to their usual level and should be around when the All-Ivy honors are distributed...
...letters, written from a German prison camp and smuggled out by a friendly guard, show Bonhoeffer's more personal side--"a new level of intimacy"--according to the Reverend Paul Lehman of the Union Seminary, a close friend of Bonhoeffer...