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...does have a vital role at Harvard, we have offered our criticisms about definition and purpose in the hope that answers and commitment will be forthcoming. We have offered our proposals in the hope that they will at least sharpen the issues of debate, at best provide partial solutions. But this is not enough. It remains for the Faculty to view the Doty Report as stimulus--not a barrier--to debate...
Criticizing the Doty Report both for the implicit contradiction of breadth versus depth in its conception of the new program and for the explicit preference for depth if it had to make a choice, we find ourselves in partial disagreement with two of the three "organizing ideas" of the new program for General Education...
Thus, for years, conservatives have been laboring doggedly in areas like Wisconsin. As more than a partial result of their efforts, Barry Goldwater is the Republican presidential nominee. The moderates should have learned one thing in San Francisco: the conservatives deeply believe in the rightcousness of their cause; their toil is not solely an attempt to gain power, and, once they have attained power at any level, they will not easily modify the views that prompted them to action in the first place...
Skeleton in the Alphabet. Possibly be cause of the partial paralysis, Corinth's brushstroke took on a slashing angularity, his colors a staccato spectrum. He studied his own face in 50 oils and 60 etchings; none bear the mark of flat tery, and many show a skeleton looking over his shoulder. His moodiness could only be broken by his wife, Charlotte Berend, a painter 22 years younger than he, and he replied by painting her 81 times...
...happened on that September day in 1781. George III called it "a drawn battle." To Rear Admiral Thomas Graves, who flubbed the encounter, it was "a lively skirmish"; to his second in command, Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Hood, "a feeble action"; to George Washington, its greatest beneficiary, "a partial engagement." There is not even agreement on its name. Says Author Larrabee: "You will find it called the Battle of the Chesapeake, of Chesapeake Bay, of Lynnhaven Bay, of Cape Henry, and of the Capes of Virginia." To this day not many Americans have heard of it. Yet the Battle...