Word: rid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ritual Phrase. Gaddafi's revolution has particular appeal to the nation's university students, who have worked hard to rid Libya's schools of alien influences. On Libya University's 8,500-student Tripoli campus, committees composed of professors, students and workers determine the curriculum and teaching methods. There I talked with Saddiqa Arriba, an attractive brunette wearing blue slacks and a knee-length tunic. As some students now do, she introduced many of her remarks with the ritual phrase Bismillah, ar-Rahman ar-Rahim (In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate...
Gaddafi fully approves the ideological book burning. At an extraordinary 5½-hour press conference with foreign newsmen, the Libyan leader haughtily declared: "Our people have the right to choose the books they consider fit and to get rid of those they do not want...
...real leadership is obscure, so are the insurgents' goals. There is evidence that some elements would be willing to settle for a coalition government if they could only get rid of Lon Nol. On the other hand, it is argued, why should they agree to talk with a government they have all but defeated on the battlefield? Still another view is that any settlement in Cambodia is not in the Communists' interests at this time because it would be overly threatening to the U.S., South Viet Nam and Thailand. Indeed, when the time is ripe...
CHILLING THE MARK. Getting rid of a customer who seems likely to take the heat and beef-become angry and complain that he has been cheated...
...Brown Committee seized upon an appropriate analogy--the role of the scientist in the University. Just as the experimental laboratory work of the scientist had become academically respectable, so artistic experimentation would become respectable. Art would be rid of its "mental inferiority" because it would be made intellectual. Professors would teach students design theory in a series of controlled experiments in the studio...