Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the merits or faults of his particular actions, Carter has: 1) presented the most comprehensive strategic arms limitation proposals the U.S. has ever offered the Soviet Union, 2) put the U.S. more forcefully on record than ever before as a champion of human rights around the world, and used foreign aid as a lever to pry loose such rights, 3) ignored diplomatic niceties in suggesting concessions that various factions must make in seeking peace in the Middle East, 4) taken on the politically dangerous task of asking the nation to accept an energy-conservation plan that will require sacrifices...
...platform will not emphasize any particular issue, but will include planks on human rights, nuclear disarmament, energy policy and state and local finance...
...response to a statement in Dean Rosovsky's 1974 Letter to the Faculty on Undergraduate Education: Faculty hiring and promotion policy, which ideally seeks a balance of abilities, in practice favors research over teaching; the lack of institutional rewards for teaching in general, and lower level instruction in particular, inevitably works to the disadvantage of undergraduates, especially in their first two years...
Previously, the Class Day Committee provided the senior class with a list of ten or so candidates. "This process would allow a minority to prevail over the wishes of a wider range of students who might prefer a certain type of speaker rather than a particular individual. The committee's objective was to come up with a speaker that the class would enjoy most rather than trying to get a big name." Marcus said...
There are some technical problems. Too much action, dancing in particular, takes place at stage level, where it is invisible to all but the first three rows. Some scenes are unimaginatively lit--the stage is flooded with light during a few forest scenes, when shadows and odd lighting angles, suggestive of the fantastic, are in order. Robert B. Sirota's otherworldly music, appropriately evocative for the dance sequences, is distracting when it plays over dialogue...