Word: persons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure am; she may not be the brightest person we ever admitted but she is such a gifted pianist and I was so impressed with her when I interviewed her. I won't let her go without a struggle..." And on and on. Admissions officers say they find themselves taking an interest in particular candidates and plugging for them all the way through...
...qualified theater person gets by me without a good reason," Schwalbe, who has an interest in drama, says. She adds that students in other activities receive support from other admissions officers with similar interests...
...Very little, beyond the latitudes they inhabit and the way they pronounce three consonant sounds. Language differences are tantamount to those of a person from Atlanta and one from Boston. Racial and religious characteristics among the ethnic Vietnamese, who comprise some 85 per cent of the country's population, are virtually undifferentiated. Tribal minorities, who generally inhabit the interior highlands in both the North and South, show a wide diversity of language and culture...
...rates of social and technological change that will be the primary characteristics of life in the future. A core curriculum, however, actually works against the development of this ability. A core is bound in the present and the past, for it specifies only what current areas of knowledge a person ought to be acquainted with, to meet current conceptions of what it means to be "educated." In essence, then, the Core is a means of perpetuating the existing ways of looking at the world, without necessarily questioning their viability, or asking if there are other, better ways...
...while a few superstars like Edward Bennett Williams or Clark Clifford have considerable access to top officials, the image is vastly distorted. Says one associate: "New York lawyers spend a lot of time poring over statute books. We spend time on the phone-often with the same public-access person available to John Q. Citizen-and then explain the situation to the client. It's usually awfully mundane...