Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Helen Kurtz, Brown's associate head librarian, stares down from her office in the Rockefeller library at the strikers, as she downplays the effects the strike has had on the library. "I'm sure they'd like to think we're suffering a lot more than we are," she pauses. "But total use is down, and we are all pinched...
Professor Hubbard talks a lot about reality. If you want to go hide in the closet, or pop a peyote button, that's fine, but that route's a dead...
...that as many people with as many different experiences be brought in to shoot down ideas. This means not only blacks and whites, men and women, but also physicists, biologists, and poets Everyone. If a bunch of physicists went off by themselves and excluded chemists, they might waste a lot of time on a whole bunch of ideas that the chemists could shoot down at the toss of a hat. That's why fresh insights are often gained in "interdisciplinary research...
Hubbard wants a bunch of women to go off to a closet to construct a reality. If we assume Hubbard's sexist bias that they would construct a different reality than a mixed group, then they would necessarily also come up with a lot of ideas that a mixed group could have shot down in a jiffy! What a way to blow time and energy! And what's preventing a woman from proposing ideas in a mixed group anyway...
...that advanced courses in biology should likewise be limited to biologists is nonsense! Thank about the contributions of physicists and chemists to biology The sad part is that too often non-scientists are shunned from such courses. With their fresh perspectives and different experiences, they could add a whole lot...