Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more familiar than Borges with the problems of translation (few know as many languages as he). Having rendered numerous works into his native Spanish, he is now working with Norman Thomas diGiovanni to prepare English translations of an upcoming volume of Borges' selected poems. The pair is trying to avoid the "maybe inevitable mistake" made by Borges' previous translators: "Latin words are natural in Spanish, but may be unnatural and far-fetched in English." The problem is to find a natural blend of Latinate and Anglo-Saxon words...
...Norman F. Ramsey, Higgins Professor of Physics, has recently conducted research which gives strong support to theories that nature would look the same if time flowed backwards...
...Yoksimovich, a white Dutch immigrant who teaches French and German, is worried by the number of students she has to fail at Shaw. She is a warm and good-natured woman, a mother out of a Norman Rockwell print. She and her husband, a Russian instructor at Shaw, live in a pleasant Raleigh suburb. "Raleigh is a very nice place to live," she told us as she drove us to her home. "Of course there are some bad sections, but I think it's very nice...
Effort V. LSD. The second year went much more smoothly, largely because the dissident teachers, led by Political Theorist Norman Jacobson, decided to bow out. By then, students were beginning to find that Tussman's insistence on turning on by hard intellectual effort was more meaningful than tripping out on LSD. "That second year was exciting," recalls Arthur Schmidt, 20, who is now a junior studying anthropology. "There were times when people were just exploding with ideas." Even some who deeply resented Tussman's no-nonsense ways eventually came close to idolizing him. "He is an authoritarian with...
...degree of preparation of a mutually understood position would have been worked through by the faculty. A position based on an understanding of what was going on developmentally in the students and the relevance of this to the ever persisting social changes in the University and the larger culture. Norman E. Zinberg Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry