Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long ago, Lauer and his close friend and collaborator Marc Postman, of the Space Telescope Science Institute, in Baltimore, Maryland, announced the results of a telescopic study they had been working on for more than a year. The young scientists reached the astonishing conclusion that rather than expanding outward in a stately fashion like the rest of the universe, a collection of many thousands of galaxies, including our own and spanning a billion light-years or so, may be speeding en masse toward a point somewhere in the direction of the constellation Virgo...
...recognize about creative writing classes is that, far from being weekly episodes of narcissistic introspection, they are workshops in which more time is spent reading and considering the work of others than in presenting one's own work. We who take creative classes are probably a lot more outward-looking than some single-minded Ec concentrators, because we are constantly confronted with the lives and experiences of our classmates. In an institution where making the grade is often top priority, these classes provide a welcome respite. They are fully as educational as any other course taught at Harvard. Rascoff seems...
...Clarke's resignation from the position of president of the BSA. This was met with a strong response form not only BSA members but other minority organizations and several Harvard graduates. After personally witnessing Ms. Clarke's consistently meeting and speaking with Hillel's president and her outward concern for Black-Jewish dialogue since her first year at the College, I found this last accusation strange indeed...
There is more. Creative writing, almost by definition, requires of students that they critically evaluate their own lives or experiences. This notion of writing, when housed in the university, promotes the mistaken idea that education requires a turning inward into one's self, rather than outward towards the world...
Bellman has also worked as an instructor at the Colorado and Canadian Outward Bound Wilderness School...