Word: pioneers
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...religion, a heady mixture of Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian beliefs and practices. None of the old gods and goddesses is more popular than the gentle Matsu, patroness of fishermen and seafarers. According to legend, Matsu was a devout 9th century girl who acquired divine powers at her early death. Pioneer Chinese settlers credited her with protecting them on their trip across the Taiwan Strait 350 years...
Seeking new ways to goad restless students, Hampshire is brimful of "relevant" interdisciplinary studies. One environmental course, for example, pulls together the geography of Mount Washington, the works of Thoreau, the migration of the Mormons, and computerized mathematical simulations of ecological systems. Hampshire has also been a pioneer in letting students work on their own for a month in midwinter. This year one girl simulated blindness for two weeks in a self-designed psychology experiment; Holly Lyman, daughter of Stanford University President Richard Lyman, taught herself to weave...
Simon S. Kuznets, Baker Professor of Economics, a pioneer of national income and economic growth studies in developing nations, will retire on July 1, 1971. He has been on the Harvard Faculty since...
Venomous Division. That belief, what might be called the "Coriolanus complex," seems to embarrass Miller. So he tones down or eliminates speeches expressing it in order to spotlight Stockmann as a kind of pioneer spirit of the purely ethical life. As a result, the play becomes something of a tirade against the venality of small-town existence rather than a broad examination of when, or whether, the democratic principle of majority rule may legitimately be abrogated by a single individual. Certainly, in the realm of ideas one would have to agree with Stockmann: "Before many can know something, one must...
...decided to do something about it." Doing something, Cembura's way, consisted of founding antique-bottle clubs, as well as a separate organization for modern-bottle collectors ("The oldtimers," Cembura says, "are snobbish. They are only interested in bottles 60 years old or older"). Cembura's pioneer "Jim Beam Bottle Clubs of the U.S." boasted a membership of ten in 1966; today there is a national network of more than 30 affiliates, with an active total membership of well over...