Word: surly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Eisenhower sat in an American military cemetery at St.-Laurent-sur-Mer and, with thousands of white crosses forming a background for his words, talked about his own son, who had graduated from West Point on June 6, 1944, who had not died in the war, and who had given him grandchildren to brighten his life. There was no sentimentality in what he said, merely strong feeling for the dead who had gone to France, as he put it, to gain nothing for themselves...
...Nuenen (The Potato Eaters) for Antwerp and Paris, his palette brightens. When he reaches Aries in the south of France it bursts into the brilliant light of high noon (Sunflowers, The Harvest, his own Yellow House). Van Gogh spent the last two months of his life at Auvers-sur-Oise, there painted skies deepening with twilight. Through June...
...Sur la Pointe
Though the payoffs in transplant sur gery are still distressingly few, hopes remain high; both the number and vari ety of transplant operations are increasing. Trouble is, the human body has a habit of trying to reject any tissue or organism that is foreign to its own chemistry. Only with transplants between identical twins is there reasonable hope of long-term success. Among other people, the rejection reaction is always present, though it varies in intensity.* To some Manhattan researchers, this very variation offered new hope for transplant success. In Science, the in vestigators report a new technique for predicting...
Such developments are hardly sur-surprising. The unwieldy size of a course required of all students, differences among students in ability and preparation, disagreements among faculty members over methods of presentation and the exact selection of the "great books" and significant scientific problems to be covered could all be expected to encourage the proliferation of lower-level Gen Ed courses beyond the four originally contemplated...