Word: symposiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite devices of intellectual journals is to collect a number of articles or essays on the same topic from a group of well known scholars, and bind them all together with a general introduction. The result is called a "symposium." and usually consists of 20 or so vague essays all saying the same thing about one general topic. The viewpoint expressed in the articles will be the accepted moderate-liberal position, with perhaps one ?? and one conservative thrown in for balance D?? the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is often guilty of this sort of thing...
Burns' talk was part of the agenda that concluded a two-day symposium on the arm race and the unilateral proliferation of nuclear weapons. The symposium, sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group of Boston-area scientists, is designed to disseminate information to the public concerning the danger of nuclear arms buildup...
Panelists at a Medical School symposium on medical practice in mainland China agreed Monday night that the Communist regime has done an excellent job of spreading health care to most segments of the Chinese population...
...called a safeguard, but it doesn't guard and it isn't safe-and it is useless and expensive," Joseph S. Clark '23, former Senator from Pennsylvania, said at a symposium last night at Sander's Theatre...
...symposium focuses on the "crisis that the arms race has created and was designed to alert the citizenry of the developments on the horizon in the arms field and what it can mean to them," Leo Grodzins, professor of Physics at M. I. T., said in a press conference yesterday afternoon...