Word: prior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have me assume, halfway through the committee's proceeding, the role of a "party" to the case rather than that of a witness! That I was not willing to assume that role had been made perfectly clear to him at a lengthy meeting we had on May 29, 1973, prior to my agreeing to appear before the committee. Although, as departmental chairman, I had obviously initiated the discussions that led to the decision not to reappoint Dr. Hartman I had had no part in the preparation of the School's case and was ignorant of its contents. I had been...
...believe: (1) that we need first of all the recognition that the interdisciplinary field of Women's Studies is a vital area of modern scholarship and that this university must offer courses in it; (2) that these courses must be pitched at different levels so that people with no prior knowledge can be introduced to the voluminous and rapidly growing literature, while those who are ready for advanced work can do that (3) that different courses must be taught by people with different outlooks on feminism and on what should be included in Women's Studies, so that the style...
Displaying the soccer style that prc scouts love so much, Lowery boomed a moon shot field goal of 51 yards just one second before intermission, pumping some life into his distraught teammates. Prior to the 66-yd. drive which set up the long field goal, the Big Green offense had amassed negative two yards in total offense against Harvard's stingy defense...
...prove the point, Adler puts her heroine through a year of teaching, "by mistake," at a Manhattan college, surrounded by "feather bedding illiterates" and "reactionary pedants." Visiting Professor Fain notes: "Our full professors, tenured faculty, teach H.B.A., or Hours by Appointment; that is, never." Students are awarded "Prior Life Experience" credits for such things as raking famous people's lawns. This may look like slapstick. But it sounds, to anyone who has brushed against academe, horribly true. Paragraph by paragraph, vignette by vignette, Speedboat hilariously builds an unsettling case: truth is slapstick. No wonder attentive, sensitive people begin...
Miller press aides cancelled the credentials of Frank Martin, a reporter for the Trotskyist Workers League's twice-weekly Bulletin, and informed Workers Vanguard reporter Mark Lance that he would be denied credentials to enter the convention hall, explaining that the union could not guarantee his physical safety. Prior to this, union officials had advised five other reporters for left-wing newspapers that they should leave the convention "for your own sake...