Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Given his liking for the "old style" Harvard professor, it is not surprising that Mr. Fleming recognizes no antithesies between research and teaching. In his view, both he and students profit when he can "induge" in extensive study. Not only "is it a relief to be on top of a subject, not always an easy task in some of the broader courses," he says, "but I have found that students respond best to the lectures which are based on research...
...Oxford to the individual student, who can glean a very clear idea of what he is expected to study by reading old examination papers. Tutorials play a secondary role: to sharpen one's self-critical faculty. Lectures and classes are there as a dietary supplement and as comic relief...
...William L. Cary: "It is not a picture of pervasive fraudulent activity." With that, the Dow-Jones average of 30 key industrial stocks rose 13.22 points in the 2½ trading sessions after the report's release, reaching 702.43, its highest level in a year. For all the relief, however, no one could afford to overlook an important fact that Chairman Cary had also noted: "Grave abuses do occur, and additional controls and improvements are much needed...
...petulance is smacking the daylights out of Wife Lisa to launch this chilling story of mismatched mates. When Lisa gets the news that Robert's airliner, bound for Casablanca, has crashed near Bordeaux killing all on board, her grief is tempered with relief. Two nights later, she is awakened by a rapping at the door. It is Robert, bleeding and disheveled, but still smiling his winsome smile, and still alive. "Airplanes." he explains, "do funny things before they crash." So do plot lines. It seems that the emergency exit blew out and he dropped on a hilltop a mile...
...Label of Relief. The Biblical Jacob who wrestled with an angel was trying to learn his name-in the belief that knowing something's name gives a man power over it. When a traditional writer tells exactly what motive a character has. he offers the reader the relief of a label that allows him to put aside his questions about the character and consider the subject-and the story-closed. By refusing to do this. Uwe Johnson makes the matter of Jakob's life a matter for continuing speculation. Jakob moves out of literature into reality-like...