Word: sussex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gilbert) K. (for Keith) Chesterton's essays, he wanders the white hills of southern England. Drawing paper is at hand, but he has forgotten his pastels. Looking down, the artist enjoys a sudden epiphany. He is walking over his heart's desire: Sussex is a giant piece of chalk...
Died. Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, 66; in his sleep; on his estate in Sussex, England. As Earl Marshal of England, the duke choreographed royal weddings and funerals with such clockwork precision that he complained that Winston Churchill's state funeral was "two minutes late." Asked once by a newsman how he felt about work, the duke replied, "It has never appealed...
...Whose representatives in Parliament no longer include Radical Catholic Bernadette Devlin. Campaigning as an independent, she was defeated in her home district of mid-Ulster by a hard-line Protestant. Winners included Tories Winston Churchill, grandson of the late Prime Minister, and John Rathbone, who took the Sussex seat once held by both his mother and father...
Another Japan scholar, Professor Ronald Dore of Sussex University, has lamented in a recent article in Pacific Affairs that in many countries, the process of education has degenerated into the business of training people who are "qualified." Dore comments that in Japan a college education is almost mandatory for self-advancement. As a result there is extreme pressure on students to qualify for college entrance, but the Japanese have managed to retain the spirit of improving themselves as individuals rather than merely acquiring qualifications. Dore attributes the Japanese desire for self-improvement to the existence of a pedagogical tradition before...
Five hundred people waited inside the hall and another 150 demonstrators circled outside the building at the time Huntington was scheduled to speak on the role of the military in American foreign policy. Seeing the way barred, Huntington left with two Sussex faculty members without attempting to give his lecture. The Times reported in its June 17 edition...