Word: orals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NONFICTION 1-Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read (3) 2-Times to Remember, Kennedy (1) 3-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (2) 4-All the President's Men, Bernstein & Woodward (4) 5-Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller (5) 6-Management, Drucker (7) 7-Go East, Young Man, Douglas (9) 8-Working, Terkel (6) 9-Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, Brodie (8) 10-The Wall Street Gang...
Though living in two worlds-and sometimes mastering both-can be exhilarating, it can also be agonizing. A certain schizophrenia comes all too easily. "There is no consistency between my social life and my business life," complains Melvyn Huckaby, a Houston oral surgeon who lives among whites and works among blacks. "I'm on the front line all the time. It depresses me." The demands of middle-class life have produced some new strains. Says Thomas Freeman, director of continuing education at Texas Southern University: "All through high school and college I was told that blacks do not commit...
...oral examiners was an English professor who requested to be on his orals board. The department had already lined up an English examiner; the professor resolutely offered to do the history part...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman,Miller...
Worried by that same ominous thought, Kissinger flew back to Israel. He had managed to obtain at least an oral promise from Assad that the fedayeen would be policed. He convinced Israeli negotiators that they should eliminate their demand for a clause specifically forbidding paramilitary forces to operate across the buffer zones. Instead, he substituted a secret protocol to the effect that Washington will not oppose Israeli retaliation in the event of future raids. The Israelis accepted this. Armed with their affirmative response, he once more sped back down the Judean hills to Ben Gurion Airport and made...