Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a semester of work by this Faculty committee and over a year of work by a planning committee--as well as student efforts to talk up women's studies--the pace of change has hardly accelerated. Harvard is starting almost from scratch with only a small group of devoted supporters of women's studies. Finding interested Faculty members and the money and research material they need is the challenge the committee faces next year. The committee also hopes to keep students on its side and not allow requests for a concentration to poison the minds of faculty members whose...
...basic recipes"), expounds the secrets of olive oil, flour and cow cheese, goat cheese and sheep cheese. As if photographing each step on their minds, the students crane forward to retain the maestra's skill in boning chicken breasts ("Save the skins!"), her hammering of scallopini, her preparation from scratch of four-egg pasta in just about every form from agnolotti to trofie...
...hours, I could sit down and reabsorb the necessary detail before going into the negotiations. Also, my 6½ years in the Defense Department were a real help. Picking up the technical aspects of SALT was not as difficult as if I'd had to start from scratch. Finally, as a trial lawyer, I've been trained to absorb a heavy dose of facts and retain them under considerable pressure...
...Presumably the search committee must go back and take another look," Stokey said, but she added that no decision had been made about whether to start the process from scratch...
...playful hand-lettered preface, del Rio says that a "reason for trying to take on Charlie was my wish to understand him-an ambition which I haven't satisfied." He repeats that note of puzzlement throughout the book, drawing in a variety of marginal characters who scratch their heads at the ideas and jargon of philosophers like Hegel and Kant...