Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...onerous than ever (two semesters in each of seven general areas, plus another year of intermediate work in an area other than that of the student's concentration). Distribution requirements were still satisfied by taking large, introductory survey courses. All courses were for grades: there was no pass-fail option...
...that conclusion was reached only after long deliberation. In the fall of 1966, Magaziner was not sure why he and other students were dissatisfied. He proposed a research project to find out. Taking advantage of the independent study option. Magaziner helped form a group of Brown and Pembroke students, "whose only impetus was a vague dissatisfaction with their education . . . to discuss the role and purpose of a liberal arts college." Magaziner and his colleagues became Brown's first Group Independent Study Project (G.I.S.P...
Selling an Option. The Franciscan spots are never overtly Roman Catholic in message. In one, a dark hand shakes and holds onto a white hand, and a voice asks, "All things considered, that's not very much, is it?" Another spot shows flashbacks from a day in the life of a married couple as they exchange a kiss on his return from work. The kiss is an external sign of a love that "builds today into forever." A commercial produced for the Episcopal Church shows a man switching channels from catastrophe to catastrophe on his TV set. Finally...
...commercials seek to convey the idea that religion is something worth thinking about. Observes the Rev. Charles Brackbill Jr. of United Presbyterian's Division of Mass Media: "We are selling an option. What we're saying is, 'Consider God-consider God as an alternative.' " The churches are convinced that at least a few halfway believers are once again doing just that...
Burning a person with a cigarette is a fair example of the first option. Torn, who plays a psychiatrist and thus knows how to hurt people most profoundly, chooses the second...