Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason, however, to force everyone to take lower-level courses, and it is here that we differ from a second group of opponents of the CEP program, including Master Finley. If a person has a strong background in an area and wishes to study it at a more advanced level, or if he wishes to postpone his General Education until he has become familiar with much of the work covered by lower-level courses, he should be permitted to work at the upper-level...
...house in Georgetown; one daughter, Tracy, 23, who attended Bennington College and Boston University-but never graduated-is married, and a second, Susan, 18, is a freshman at Centenary College in Shreveport, La. "I love hearing about Frank's job," Deedie says. "I'm about the only person he can blow his stack with. Frank is just like his father. He leaves the cellar flooded and flies off to South America. The only thing he does around here each year is to sign his income-tax form." Even when traveling, says she, Keppel would be "absolutely lost without...
...could not get to a bookshop, otherwise help store sales with generous advertisements in national magazines. Paperbacks, which give the seller only half the hardcover markup, have proved to bring in buyers who would never have been attracted otherwise, also introduce many younger people to serious reading. "Soon a person is going from a 75? novel to a $5 novel," says Joseph B. Anderson, owner of a bookshop in Larchmont, N.Y. "It's an easy transition, once they're hooked on books." Once they are hooked, cost is no barrier; hardcover prices have gone up almost as much...
...grounding in basic science so that he can go on to good research or good practice. By comparison, it is, indeed, a research school, since most medical schools lack teachers who can integrate contemporary developments in the life sciences into a medical curriculum. If you are the sort of person who can't wait to start saving lives, be warned: during your first two years, you will have to put with an immense amount of complicated, tedious "pure" science, which you will certainly find irrelevant and unbearable. It's not easy to generalize about whether students benefit from the indoctrination...
...intelligently religious person, knowing that religious preferences which divide people into sects are the result of indoctrination in childhood rather than of the greater truth, plausibility or superiority of any sect, will not hesitate to change to One Religion...