Word: syllabus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gwynne B. Evans and Jean H. Slingerland, director and assistant director of Expository Writing, submitted a proposal to the Faculty Council to exempt over 500 students from the writing requirement, to eliminate the middle-group courses, and to standardize Expos 10 with one text, one exam, and one syllabus for the 1000 who score below 700 on the English Composition Achievement Test. The proposal has not yet been passed, because of considerable controversy between the teaching and the administrative staffs of the program. The issue--to standardize or not to standardize--is crucial. If realized, Slingerland's proposal would...
...kidnapers of Socialite Amanda Mayhew Dealey. Of course, defense attorneys pull out every stop and follow every stereotype to get a sympathetic jury. But one hint of how prosecutors manage to select vengeance-minded jurors came out recently in the liberal Texas Observer. It obtained a copy of a syllabus put out by the Dallas County district attorney's office. The chapter on "Jury Selection in a Criminal Case," written by Jon Sparling, the assistant D.A. who got the first 1,000-year sentence in the city in 1970, contained some astonishingly frank assessments of what a prosecutor should...
...money and have made no plans to spend their windfall. They are classic American doers. Kilburn Durham's vaguely modernist paintings are exhibited in an Evansville restaurant. For years the couple were members of a Mortimer Adler Great Books Club, but their group outlived the eleven-year club syllabus...
...argues from both history and philosophy. He recites a syllabus of papal errors, from the famous fallibilities of St. Peter to the "high-handed" decrees of Pope Paul. The whole idea of papal authority, Kűng says, was ambiguous as late as Augustine and not absolute until Aquinas, who leaned unwittingly on forged quotations from Cyril's Book of Treasures and other false texts. Belief in infallibility evolved later, and has been defined dogma only since Vatican Council I a century ago (see box). Drawing on Catholic historians, Kűng claims that infallibility as propounded by Vatican...
...Arthur D. Little, Inc. (ADL) study last April devised a syllabus in which Cambridge police will play out scenarios such as rumbles at a ballpark, "hippie" gatherings, and marital fights...