Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good chance of imminent performance; and, furthermore, he wrote his parts for specific players--an idea that finds few advocates today, although it is precisely what Shakespeare had done. None of Chekhov's plays was fully understood and appreciated at its first performance, and he was repeatedly plagued with self-doubts. On occasion he vowed never to bother with the stage again. And he got into heated interpretational conflicts with Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, the two heads of the celebrated Moscow Art Theatre, whose influence still plagues Chekhov's works...
...graduate school at the University of North Carolina. His first move on taking over as chancellor of Vanderbilt in 1963 was to call in student leaders to discuss campus affairs, a move that got him off to a good start with the student body. He then requested a written self-appraisal from each department, getting response from 285 faculty and staff members. This netted him a 4,400-page report 16.3 inches high, all of which he read and used to good effect...
...South Kensington, where Thomas Huxley was teaching biology at the time. It was Huxley who first excited Wells' interest in science. But young Wells' omnivorous curiosity-always subject to other intellectual temptations -was diverted into Fabian socialism, literature and debating. Putting more and more time into self-education, he muffed his degree examinations. As a schoolmaster exiled to the borders of Wales, he was stomped in the back while refereeing a football match and almost died of a ruptured kidney...
...Nothing is left unchanged. Neurotic, studious looking Radcliffe girls with round, horn-rimmed glasses are replaced by 4-H Club cheerleaders from Miame U., and the all too serious self-involved Harvard student gives way to tackles and student body presidents from the Big Ten Colleges. Even the Revolution takes a break," writes Steve Lerner (Harvard '68), the author of the article...
...acting as "a creation of the community it serves, WIN represents the most basic form of community self-help, that of improving employment opportunities", and thereby hopes to overcome the standardization and impersonality of other welfare programs...