Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senior Fellow of the governing Harvard Corporation, which he served on for 28 years. Burr now sits on the steering committee for Harvard's 350th Anniversary Celebration, and will receive a Harvard Medal this week for his service to the University. today. Between Boston and New York the preferred method of travel was by steamer--either for the entire distance through the Cape Cod Canal, which had not been open for long, or more quickly by train to Fall River and thence by water...
...failed to carry out his directive. At the state level, Republican Governor George Deukmejian, who is also a University of California regent, did not commit himself to support a divestment either from state pension funds or from the university. But he gave divestment advocates hope, saying, "The divestment method might be a very effective tool in helping to correct the racial oppression that exists in South Africa...
...source of money and vast amusement. He is misled by most locals and never learns whether they are lying or merely find Western epistemology elusive. Barley makes every possible mistake. He selects a youthful interpreter in a culture contemptuous of the young. He talks to women, a lunatic method of gathering information, according to the Dowayo tradition. He refuses to take off his white skin at night and stubbornly remains convinced that chameleons are not poisonous but cobras...
...horse, a stage version of Alexandre Dumas's novel that James O'Neill (Eugene's father) adapted and toured in for 30 years, was just the first of Sellars' bold choices. In program notes, he proclaims that "the evening contains at least five different plays, each with its own method and tone"; cites influences as diverse as Bertolt Brecht and D.W. Griffith; and even warns patrons that "there is no seat in the house from which the entire production can be seen. After all, this isn't television...
...Ronald Reagan, the consummate salesman, tax reform promises to be the hardest sell of his presidency. This week he will launch a ballyhooed campaign to convince Congress that political salvation lies in rebuffing the swarms of special interests whose loopholes now ventilate the tax code. His method of persuasion, as ever, will be to preach over the heads of Congressmen to the voters who elect them...