Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late '60s and early '70s there was a more lively curiosity on the part of students to play around with new ideas, and to experiment intellectually. Now the tendency is to look for more secure learning situations," said Norman W. Robinson, associate dean for student affairs at Stanford University, who also attended the meeting...
...goal is to try to "stimulate students" by making the residential colleges places "conducive to lively debate and intellectual discussion," Robinson says...
Marvin Gaye, just like Diana Ross, the Temptations, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, had a special right to carry the Motown torch. Hired as a drummer for Smokey Robinson, Gaye instantly began a career as a soloist that culminated in his rise as one of the first Motown stars daring to criticize the Establishment. He challenged the war with "What's Going On?," lashed out at pollution with "Mercy, Mercy Me," and called for hope by recording, with Tammi Terrell, the Ashford and Simpson hit "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." His songs also influenced later white artists; the Rolling...
...Department official and accused Communist spy, of perjury in 1950; a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian award. Chambers, who died in 1961, was one of 14 recipients of this year's medal. Others included the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the late baseball great Jackie Robinson, Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., Actor James Cagney, Country Singer Tennessee Ernie Ford, Writer Louis L'Amour and the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale...
...Jazz led 31-29 after the first quarter of play, with Griffith leading the way with 13 points. Robinson and Huston brought the Cavaliers back in the second period and they took 53-50 advantage to the dressing room at intermission...