Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University also honored Joan Miro, Spanish born painter well-known for his role in surrealism...
...next week Harvard rebounded to dump Penn, 45-7. It was the calm before the storm. In Soldiers Field Nov. 11, before 38,000 witnesses, Princeton murdered Captain Don Chiafaro's crew, 45-6. The Tigers' fullback Ellis Moore scored five touch-downs in his role as chief assassin. Brown fell, though not without a struggle...
Perhaps the most critical role of academic urban research is that of contradicting some of the shibboleths--including liberal ones--which guide policy-making. (The Coleman Report, for example--not a Joint Center product but of the same type--has shaken up educators by indicating that a number of factors "obviously" related to classroom performance appear to have no bearing on performance...
...CENTER'S "active" role has been largely passive -- instrumental rather than innovative. Says Fein, "We're a switching station--in theory, we can plug a person into a problem. As it happens, the problems put on our desk have nothing to do with the ghetto...
...going to be the catalyst between the university and the ghetto, that does not render the Center useless. Ghetto problems are by far the most urgent concern of urbanists, but obviously not the only ones. The urgency of ghetto problems tends to suggest to people an "obvious" institutional role for the urbanstudies Center in the ghetto--but as the Joint Center stands now, it is singularly and paradoxically unsuited to assisting the community it studies