Word: reverts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...educational trends closely, already notes a marked rise in the IQs of the ZPGeneration now in primary school. Verbal and linguistic skills, he finds, increase in inverse proportion to the size of the family; smaller families, as he puts it, are "more adult-oriented than sibling-oriented." Education may revert in part from classroom to living room. Children may again receive wisdom from respected, caring elders...
...this is disco, then maybe they're right, or it wouldn't be such a bad thing anyway. They start playing Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons here after a while, and these people, who wouldn't know a hustle if it BUMPED into them on the street, invariably revert to the Frug anyway...
Peterson does not deal exclusively with Harvard graduates. Women's roles are changing: one cannot predict what the long range effect of this will be, he says. If alumnae revert to a traditional "nurturing" role, rather than going into business and other professions, they will have occupied spaces in the University which--from a fundraiser's point of view--would have been more financially lucrative for the University if they had gone to men. However, Peterson says he's "betting that women will be active in the business world. If we're wrong then we're reducing the number...
...always been "Give it more time." The deans and CHUL should realize that, whether or not the new system is better in their eyes, it is not in those of the freshmen, and it should be changed. Perhaps if this issue was given more attention CHUL would reconsider and revert to the old policy. Thank you, Marc Sobil...
...always intended to return to the state of his birth. They cite Hughes tax returns listing Houston addresses, plus Hughes' death certificate, which gives Houston as his home. Hill contends that mental incompetence and isolation prevented Hughes from determining his final resting place. Therefore, Hill argues, residency should revert to his Houston birthplace...