Word: portions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merely lived but ceremoniously acted out within a complex web of obligations linking gods and men in fatal and final patterns. There is a strong sense of reality in the Homeric world; the poet had a peasant's narrow eye for each man's just portion and place at table. This apparently simple world was ruled by a supernatural order; divine justice, immediate and dramatic, awaited "those who would not think straight nor behave." Odysseus himself never failed to pay his sacrificial obligations to Zeus. The Spartan simplicity of what today might be called the economic base...
...large portion of the report is derived directly from the poll. Particularly, we said, "The Committee's poll revealed extraordinary shallowness in students' perceptions of the program." As indicated in the report, this impression was derived not only from four questionnaires quoted directly, but from careful reading of the entire response...
...House subcommittee that a religious group with its own high school system "should provide the necessary financial support, thus insuring its own continuing autonomy and freedom." The Association of Reform Rabbis of New York announced: "We uphold the President's definite stand against the extension of any portion of federal aid to parochial schools." "This Other Area." Clearly worried about the fate of the bill, the Kennedy forces tried cautiously to find some middle course. At the House hearing, New Jersey Democrat Frank Thompson, a Catholic in favor of Kennedy's stand, tried to take some...
...neither the capitalist type of social living nor the family was so easily undermined. As early as December 1958, party brass noted the growing discontent and cut the workday to twelve hours. They also returned a small portion of the expropriated land to its former peasant owners, together with a small red card that bore the inscription: "This private plot of land belongs to your family permanently, and crops grown on it shall be disposed of by you only...
...complexion of female juvenile delinquency has changed "shockingly" over the past 13 years, said Rogers. In the late '40s and early '50s, the major portion of girls' delinquency "was concerned with truancy, running away from home, ungovernableness and sex offenses." Lately, more and more offenses have involved stealing and "injury to person." Youth Board studies "indicate the need for expanded service for girls, particularly those affiliated and associated with gangs. We feel that the tremendous capacity they possess for positive influence can be redirected into constructive channels...