Word: personation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Ernest Boyer of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, at Trinity University, San Antonio: "An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time...
Vietnamese Boat Person Vu Thanh Thuy, at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: "In fact, surprising as it may seem, the daily struggle of making a living in America is more difficult to cope with than all of the events we went through in prison and at sea. The reason is that there is nothing 'heroic' about surviving the never ending problems of daily life...
Jonathan Noel, 53, has been a bank guard in Paris for some 30 years. He imagines that by the time he retires, he will "assuredly be the one person in all Paris -- perhaps even in all France -- who had stood the longest time in just one place." This suits Jonathan fine. His childhood was disagreeably eventful: both parents disappeared during World War II. As a young man, he was pressured into the army and then into an unsuitable, short-lived marriage. Since then, he has carefully constructed a hermetic existence designed to protect himself from all surprises. His plan works...
When asked what she would advise Dalton, Jackson said, "It has to be done on a person-by-person basis. It's not a fun thing to do--it's a very lonely thing to do. Harvard is big and powerful, and in my mind, it fights very unethically...
...case concerned fishing rights between two countries, and the later-to-be ARCO official got an "A" on the exam. When someone asked the professor how he could give a top grade to a person unfamiliar with the subject, he replied that the student had written his response from the perspective of the fish...