Word: portions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nervous and gentle, the kind of individual one could never hate, but readily become impatient with. When no one is in the gallery, he works by himself in a small frame shop in the rear--"You wouldn't want to sit around doing nothing all day." A considerable portion of his business derives from this task, a fact which follows logically from the present quality of his objects d'art. Proud of his framing work, he says "it's amazing how much bad taste you'll find around in framing; nothing hurts you more than to see a nice picture...
Labaree has suggested that a pilot project should be set up next year, using one small portion of the Yard. This will almost certainly not be done unless someone gets on the ball very fast. Unless the existence of the present freshman year is to become an argument against any program that has not gathered dust for a few years, Labaree's proposal deserves either a trial or a detailed rebuttal. Fish or cut bait...
...world famous philosopher began the annual Herman F. Kahn lecture series last night with a speech on "Myth and History." Professor Brandon Homer devoted the major portion of his address to the renowned Homer-Smith theory of Underground Migration, propounding that mankind had, at one stage of pre-history, lived on the Earth's crust. Homer said that evidence supporting the theory exists in many branches of study, and offered an example of "linguistic evidence" by analyzing such phrases as "green plant" and "starry night," still common in primitive dialects...
...simple fact is that present tutorial programs make a good portion of the debate over tutorial absurd. In addition, staff limitations are providing either reason or excuse for focusing Social Relations increasingly on research, and emphasizing economic theory instead of a more general non-scholarly approach. The situation is difficult, the departments have no plans for change, and the prognosis is poor...
...inside Norfolk have committed a wide range of crimes, and have drawn penalties ranging from a few years to life imprisonment. Nevertheless, most of them share one common characteristic: they are not caught on the first offense, and if they were ever released, they will offend again. A large portion of prisoners regard arrest as simply "bad luck," rather than the inevitable, or even probable, consequence of crime, and the case of prison life, together with the difficulty to finding honest employment upon release, all tend to remove any reservations a convict might have about offending again...