Word: oxfords
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...anthropologist previously, Curle decided after World War II that "I didn't want to spend the rest of my life studying societies. I wanted to study the people who make up society." He returned to Oxford, earned a Ph.D. in anthropology and psychology in 1950, and went to work teaching social psychology at Oxford. But social psychology left him restless. Before long, he switched to education. "Many social ills might be prevented," he argues. "They could be prevented through the wise use of education." Curle transferred to the University of Exeter, teaching education and psychology...
Throughout the period at Oxford and Exeter, Curle had been doing short-term duty for the U.N.: taking two-week trips to underdeveloped countries, preparing reports on social development, and returning to his teaching job. Then Pakistan invited him to take on a full-time advisory post, and in 1956 he left England, joining a Harvard advisory group helping the Pakistan Planning Commission formulate Pakistan's five year development plans. The new job--and his intimate contact with "the appalling suffering of people" in underdeveloped countries -- opened Curle's eyes. "When I got to Pakistan, I found this was quite...
...Really! Devoting almost an entire page to John Sparrow's TIME-honored but otherwise discredited defense of the Warren Commission Report [Dec. 22]. When I lectured at Oxford, Sparrow refused to debate with me, stating that he was unqualified to defend the commission despite his many efforts along these lines. When I completed my two-hour talk, I asked him if there was anything to which he could take exception and he said, quite publicly, that there was not. He then remained silent for more than a year. Now he has again repeated his "conclusions" in support...
Princeton's Bill Bradley let professional basketball cool its heels for two years while he studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford, then another five months passed while he served out his military duty in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. Two weeks ago, the man who ranks as one of the game's all-time college greats finally reported to the New York Knickerbockers to start work on his four-year, $500,000 contract. From the way the fans reacted, he might have been Bob Cousy, Oscar Robertson and Wilt Chamberlain all rolled into one. In Bradley...
...starting out in a man's game where practically every competitor can match his 6-ft. 5-in. size, and even the bench warmers were stars back home. What's more, they have been working at their trade. "I only played six games at Oxford last year," says Bradley, and his training with the Knicks was limited to one workout...