Word: personality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...report, the commission termed the present system "archaic, undemocratic, complex, ambiguous, indirect, and dangerous," noting that a person can become president with fewer popular votes than his major opponent. This is because the "winner-take-all" system gives each state's entire electoral vote to the leading candidate...
...reforms. One was to hike the minimum rank listing for an honors senior to Group III from Group IV, in order to filter out the less able thesis writers. The other was to establish a system of senior seminars as an alternative to the thesis. Each six to eight-person seminar would be led by a tutor and would be concentrated on a specific subject, such as the Progressive Era in America. Each participant would write a 40-page paper -- about half the length of a standard History thesis -- and would receive some form of Departmental honors. Some tutors...
...sentenced him to twelve years at hard labor). The driver, Horst's brother Heinz, 27, sprinted for the boundary 15 feet away. Just as he got there, a machine-gun slug caught him in the jugular vein. He bled to death three feet inside West Berlin-the 65th person known to have been slain at the Wall...
...hotel's sedate, continental Crystal Room into a black-and-white striped tent with a "pop-op" decor. Then suddenly the room was filled with 445 stylish, milling guests and the music of Meyer Davis' orchestra. And dancing among them, smiling, shy and lovely, was the person it was all about-Anne Ford, 22, who the next day would marry her sweetheart of a year, Italian-born Giancarlo Uzielli...
...They use the tools of modern Biblical scholarship, and read such progressive theologians as Rudolf Bultmann and Reinhold Niebuhr. But the Evangelicals insist that nothing is outdated about the traditional theological language of the church, or about belief in the Bible as the inspired word of God. "Once a person begins to doubt the accuracy of the Bible," says Kantzer, "he is on his way toward becoming a liberal and probably an agnostic or atheist...