Word: roper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left ear lobe and a gold marijuana leaf in his collar. He is going to the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he will study molecular biology. He is impatient to leave Evanston, this cowboy and oil town where they sell bumper stickers that read I'M A ROPER, NOT A DOPER...
Gibson says "some of the bloom is off the rose of the tax credit" as a result of a recent Roper Organization survey that shows that given a choice between expanded grant and loan programs and tuition tax credits, people prefered the expanded programs. A New York Times-CBS poll and a Gallup poll show, however, that the tax credit is more popular than expanded grants programs...
...survey was conducted by the Roper Organization and the results were published in the August 7 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education...
...soon as Trevor-Roper tries to re-emerge from art into history, his facts take on the air of fantasy. And because Trevor-Roper has not offered enough objective evidence about Backhouse's career (he paraphrases the hermit much more often than he actually quotes him), the reader cannot fully believe the author. Thus Trevor-Roper's attempt to explain Backhouse's turn toward Germany in the '40's as an illustration of fin desiecle elitism of the British upper class converting into fascism, is simply a poor fit. It is like trying to find a practical...
...book, our conclusion, of course, is obvious. By constructing an internally consistent portrait, Trevor-Roper has made his point well. But what the book gains in artfulness it loses in historical validity. Peking of the time is seen only through Backhouse's scheme. Not only for the hermit was the greater mystery of China lost...