Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other uses for the brick and iron." The nearby bird cage, by contrast, is the center of activity in the park. On the afternoon of our arrival, a squad of preteenage girls, dressed in uniforms consisting of white blouses and black trousers and wearing the red bandannas of the Pioneer Communist Youth Organization, marched around the cage. Three off-duty soldiers in green pith helmets looked on with amusement, while two women street cleaners in conical hats and surgical masks busily swept away bread crumbs that passers-by had thrown to the birds...
Darwin, in fact, was somewhat of a journalistic pioneer. He embarked on a career as a barrister after passing the Law Tripos at Cambridge before his first article appeared in the Times in 1907 under the heading "Golf and the Championship." Prior to Darwin, sports in newspapers had been consigned to the old Victorian concept of "Sporting Intelligence," which amounted to a few morsels of trivia and numbers. Darwin's literary flair and telegraphic accounts of matches quickly made his Saturday features an eagerly awaited treat savored by thousands of readers...
...Travel gear: one free trunk per session-a holdover from the pioneer past...
...which it draws on the materials of a variety of disciplines--not in order to reduce literature to their domains but rather to reinforce its integrity. Although Frye rejects his role as the founder of a school of "myth criticism," he is not loath to characterize himself as a pioneer. "I think I have found a trial," he writes in "Expanding Eyes," "and all I can do is to keep sniffing along it until either scent or nose fails me." Spiritus Mundi is sufficient proof that both are still happily intact...
Harvard, a leader in academic exploration, does not see the need to pioneer in the field of Women's Studies. A glance through the course catalogue quickly shows that there are only five courses offered specifically on women: Social Sciences 14 a and b, "Women and the American Experience" Currier 109, "Biology and Women's Issues"; Anthropology 246, "Asian Women: Traditional and Changing Roles," and Psychology and Social Relations 2450, "The Feminine Personality." Though Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library is one of the finest resources on Women's Studies in the country, few students take advantage of it or even know...