Word: pyramidic
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...WEATHER is warm now. A Challenge class plays on the common near Memorial Hall; seven or eight kids scurry on top of one another to build a pyramid while their two teachers scurry past each other to take photographs of them. Marc is in that class; I see him, hands in pockets, anticipating his jump onto the pyramid. Marc transferred out of my class this term to be with more of his friends; he seems happier and more relaxed...
...pyramid is the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) who seized University Hall Wednesday, gave nine officials, including six deans, an academic version of the heave-ho and laid down their demands...
...approach and try to bring some good out of this situation after all. They might work their way out of ethnic learning styles by broadening their research to include all ethnic groups. We have some rather learned men in our area who believe that English-Americans are atop the pyramid of abstract learning abilities with Welsh, German, French, Belgian, Norwegian, Swiss, Finnish, Danish and Swedish occupying the next nine rungs in the order listed. After the top ten have been given their just due, these gentlemen give a smattering of attention to the rest of the world...
...also have a religious wing in this group who suspect that English-American children who are brought up in Southern Baptist churches perceive things differently and might really deserve the top spot upon the pyramid. Southern-English-American-Episcopalians regard these assertions with a great deal of amusement. But who really knows? We all will if the ethnic learning line of research is extended logically to include every possible ethnic, regional and religious stock...
...opinion leaders in all countries take seriously." That definition embraces the captive press of authoritarian societies as well as the best of the free press in the West. Merrill's book provides brief profiles of 40 newspapers, but its value rests on its ranking of the papers. His pyramid places ten papers in a "primary elite," 20 in a "secondary elite," 30 in a "tertiary elite" and 40 in a "near-elite." The world's top ten, with Merrill's estimate of their strengths...