Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, told a Faculty meeting this spring that general education was an important educational development in the '40s because it flowed from the character of the era. The challenge facing the Faculty in its current review of undergraduate education, Beer said, was to be sensitive to new ideas that might be trying to emerge from the conditions of modern society...
...Kipling, Samuel Smiles, Horatio Alger, Dr. Pangloss, J. Paul Getty, John D. Rockefeller, the Carnegies (Andrew and Dale) and countless other evangelists of true grit have all in their time promoted the same if-at-first-you-don't-succeed philosophy for nearly a century. From the evidence, there was probably never a time or place in which their lessons were more applicable or more richly rewarded than they are in the U.S. today. Heigh...
...Frank Herbert's famed Dune trilogy; that resemblance carries even to the skeleton of one of Herbert's giant sand snakes in the background of a Tatooine scene. The barroom sequence, with its remarkable array of extraterrestrial freaks, is reminiscent of scenes written by Robert Heinlein and Samuel Delaney. But as Lucas and Producer Kurtz quickly point out, Star Wars is not science fiction but space fantasy. "Space fantasy allows you more rein to say what you want to say," explains Kurtz. "So that's what we call...
...Christopher Jencks, 'Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling In America,' 1972). Nor do they become "radical" professors of economics who maintain that until we change our economic system to egalitarian socialism, there's not much that can be fundamentally done to change the schools (e.g. Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, 'Schooling in Capitalist America...
...Yale only competes with Harvard in athletics," Samuel Elliot Morrison once said, but Yale could not even do that yesterday as the Harvard track team demolished Yale, 106 to 48, on a wet and cold day in New Haven...