Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Institutes of Health, which saw the cuts coming early and negotiated directly with the individuals who were receiving grants, handled its cuts more effectively. NIH funds--which last year amounted to some $25 million at Harvard--ended up being cut about 15 percent across the board, but each person receiving funds has been able to compromise individually with the federal officials...
...decision that usually must be made according to ill-defined rules. Under Illinois law, for example, a policeman is justified in using deadly force "only when he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or another person, or when he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to make the arrest and the person to be arrested has committed or attempted to commit a forcible felony, or is attempting to escape by use of a deadly weapon, or otherwise indicates he will endanger human life or inflict great bodily harm unless...
...down about their teaching. Barry Ernstoff, 22, a Columbia graduate and N.Y.U. Law student, jolted his students one day by jumping rope with them. "Teachers don't jump rope," one boy scolded. Ernstoff explains: "We've got to humanize ourselves. Black kids are cynical about any white person's caring for them, and little by little, through affection and honesty, we've got to break that down." He repeatedly makes deliberate mistakes on the blackboard, enticing his pupils to spot them. "Some of these kids learn not to question white people. They develop a kind...
Would you say you are: a) The neatest person in your group of friends, b) about average, c) a real slob, but trying to improve, d) a real slob, and happy...
...Brasselle's own fractured English, The Cannibals is "self-servicing." That is clear enough from the author's portrayal of the first-person narrator, Joey Bertell, the only one in the novel who comes on like the white tornado. He has sung and danced as well as Fred Astaire, is a more cunning producer than David Susskind, more urbane than CBS Board Chairman William Paley, ad nauseam. The rest of the characters are ill-disguised caricatures of CBS executives. They are such a kinky crew that the reader may well wonder how CBS stays in business...