Word: modell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprised that you made no mention at all of Israel's experiment in social democracy, which has certainly played a major role in successfully reshaping Jewish society in its country. The kibbutz, Israel's collective farm, is perhaps the most original and certainly the most successful working model of a socialist idea...
Your glorification of Cheryl Tiegs was disgusting, not because of the woman herself, but because you chose to present her as a model of what other women should be. It is not only inane but cruel to condition men to judge women according to the physical standards of a tiny minority of women chosen by an even tinier minority...
...vacant chair in the hall's steamy conference room as some 200 members of the faculty of arts and sciences convened for a highly charged debate. The topic: a complete overhaul of the undergraduate general education curriculum, which for the past 30 years has served as a model for higher education...
Brooklyn-bred Richard Lee Strout has been rising to that task at least since the early 1920s, when, not long out of Harvard, he parked his Model T on the ellipse behind the White House and joined the local Monitor crew. He trod the White House beat while Warren G. Harding entertained Nan Britton in a coat closet, and when tight-lipped Calvin Coolidge gravely turned over a ceremonial spade of earth one Arbor Day and, asked to say a few words, pronounced: "That's a fine fishworm." He called Franklin D. Roosevelt "the greatest President of my time...
Harvard was created in accordance with a "male vision" and should be reshaped to include the "female vision," Reagor says. "We don't want women simply to become men; we don't want that model. We want to reshape the society. It is not easy to do. Harvard doesn't want to be reshaped," she adds. To change almost 350 years of tradition, she says "the strategy is to keep Radcliffe alive. There will be a need for Radcliffe as long as this is a male-oriented society--optimistically, a century...