Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Skinner claims that the person who adapts the machine to a particular field doesn't need to know the field so much as he must be familiar with the methodology in teaching...
Honors undoubtedly represent to the layman academic achievement of any kind, but in scholarly circles they have always indicated a particular excellence--in the writing of a thesis. The very terms-- summa, magna, and cum laude, --stem from awards given in the Middle Ages for the reading of theses or discourses. At present, however, a number of Harvard graduates get honors degrees without writing theses, through the program of Cum Laude in General Studies. While CLGS is often used to allow people with low marks as lowerclassmen to write theses, it also allows people with high marks to avoid this...
...area within which a compromise reached according to regularized procedures will be acceptable. This means, generally, that the details of the compromise are left to be worked out on the formal political level, or even below it, by the institutions, groups, and individuals most intimately affected by the particular method chosen...
...same general conclusion results from a more particular examination of Republican actions in 1946-1947 and 1952-1956. Measuring the actions of the present administration against the three broad propositions stated above, I think it is beyond dispute that the large body of its proposals, and certainly those which have been successful, lie well within the area of compromise staked out by the present consensus...
Berger's style is distinctive without being strained. Technique is subordinated to artistic ideas. I didn't get the impression that Berger feels he must have a style but rather that he does have one and it doesn't show snatches of Braque, Picasso or any particular influence. His figures are monumental and organic reminiscent but not quite like the billowing sculpture of Henry Moore. All the figures have calves that look like Captain Kidd's peg, which is slightly disconcerting at times especially coming forth from balloon-like limbs. But in this as in other exaggerations he is striving...