Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael S. Dukakis, in an effort to appease local florists hard-hit by the February blizzard, issued a proclamation declaring that Valentine's Day would last an entire week this year. Dukakis also ordered revellers to stage the traditional St. Patrick's Day parade on April 2, but left the rest of the calendar intact...
Dean Henry Rosovsky's reform of the undergraduate curriculum--three years in the making, and usually lumped under the term "Core Curriculum"--held center stage for most of the year. Since last summer, when groups of Faculty members began to take the five broad areas of study recommended in the initial Core reports, and to shape them into definite elements of the "core of knowledge" that was the Faculty's announced goal, the significance of each step in the process was clear. The final result--a set of ten required course areas, of which students must take eight--came after...
...faith in a simplistic biological approach was incredible. Their statement conjures up an image of teams of white-coated neurosurgeons descending on America's ghettos, intent on weeding out those with faulty brains and patching up their neurological circuitry. Fortunately, the physicians' suggestions never got far beyond the theoretical stage, although in 1970 Mark and Ervin did come out with a semi-popular book entitled Violence and the Brain, intended to advance the notion that, as Sweet writes in the introduction, "one way to understand and control the current colossal problem of violence is to increase our knowledge of brain...
Members of the senior class at odds with the administration over the University's position on investments in South Africa will stage a non-disruptive protest at tomorrow's Commencement exercises, United Front organizers confirmed yesterday...
...group of about 25 seniors met on Monday night in the Quincy House Junior Common Room to discuss protest plans, including ideas on how to stage a moment of silence to express solidarity with the blacks of Southern Africa...