Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winslow R. Briggs '51, committee chairman, last night suggested possible changes in curriculum, including the elimination of enrollment limitations in lower level courses and greater diversity in required choruses. "The committee will probably submit a list of considered recommendations to the department's Faculty no later than mid-March," Briggs said...
Earlier this term, over half of the 230 Biology concentrators signed a petition protesting the dearth of Biology courses and subsequently convinced the department to allow upper level courses to satisfy lower level requirements on a temporary basis...
...bricks of the Old city give way to the textured concrete of the New. Once inside, you are free. Already on the third level when you enter, you look up a hundred feet to the overhanging cliffs of a stairwell from the bare arcadia in which you stand. The red-gray bricks carry you to sunny terrace and farther and up to the concrete transition...
...feverishly embraced her lover, suddenly paused, and then panicked, "Has the angel come? Am I with child?" Yet, the total effect of all the sketches remained erratic. One element of the show, the Lenny Bruce ballet, for example, aimed at slightly obscene visual non-sequiturs. On a more abstract level, Leven had inserted stylized mood scenes on topics like the mechanization of love. Leftist political satire collided with slapstick routines. Each new offering neutralized the effect of the one that preceded it only to be wiped out in turn itself. The show left the audience bewildered, unable to readjust...
...finished. A Math 105 instructor once told his section that he would like to give the exam in the course at the end of the following semester, or even a year later. It took, he thought, that long for your mind to digest the material and accept, on the level of faith, the concepts he was trying to put across. The same is true of other courses, and the student should have the right to adjust his test-taking...