Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dawson emphasized, however, that any survey must remain sufficiently detailed to concentrate in particular fields and to relate Christianity to culture in certain specific periods...
...professor was teaching a class how to speak French, he was really teaching his students about France. The goal of any elementary language course here was to teach the student how to read the language, both so he could delve into the literature and the culture of the particular tongue, and more specifically so (if he still had to) he could pass the college board, which is primarily a reading test...
...since the war, there has been a new movement. During World War II, when the government had to teach men French, German, Italian and other languages and had to teach them in a hurry, it was found that a far greater emphasis on actual speaking of the language was particularly effective. Tape recorders were pressed into use and men taught foreign languages by actual imitation of the sounds that they heard coming over the tape. When the war ended, Cornell was the first college to pick up this idea, using it on an experimental basis. By 1950 it had proved...
...native of the country whose language is being taught. These teachers are all graduate students who work off a percentage of their tuition by leading these small classes. These graduate students are even rotated from class to class so that the students will not learn to mimic one particular type of accent in the language they are studying...
...XXIII rode in a long black Cadillac, and with him rode two of his cardinals-Clemente Cardinal Micara, Vicar General of Rome, and France's bearded Eugène Cardinal Tisserant, Dean of the Sacred College. Commented Rome's Cornere Delia Sera: "This is a highly significant particular . . . because John wishes thereby to make a public demonstration of the fact that he means to give the utmost prestige to the College of Cardinals, restoring to it its full powers...