Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee's report also studied the "inadequacy" of the department's of the department's course advising system. "Often faculty members know nothing more about courses which many students take than the descriptions in the catalogue," the report stated...
...about FCC that have appeared in the Washington Post and other local newspapers in the past two weeks have generated an enormous indignation in the student body, in the black community of the District of Columbia, and on Capitol Hill. This indignation has prompted the Board of Trustees to take a closer interest in the day-to-day operation of the college than heretofore, and their interest in turn could conceivably encourage the president and the provost to take back some of the authority they have surrendered to the faculty...
...this impression is historically false. When this nation began the founding fathers were opposed to political parties. "Let me now take a more comprehensive view," said George Washington in his farewell address, "and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party." Our worries are different from the ones which plagued Washington in his time but a similar question does reappear in the modern context, namely, what is the relationship of political parties to the functioning of American democracy...
...take a dare and be close to danger is difficult in America. Not much more than a hundred years ago one could have wandered through unknown wilderness, chanced upon a few angry Indians and been killed, or run into wild animals to be trampled to death, or have to cross the plains and, running out of supplies, simply die of starvation. The world was an unavoidable challenge. Of the first Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, one half of them died in the first few months, and those who remained began a new experience in which danger was common...
...tenderness; Chloe's skin is "amber-colored and as appetizing as marzipan," but she coughs "like a piece of silk tearing." This delicacy is poignant in the second half of the novel, as Chloe and Colin become the innocent victims of an inexplicable determinism for which no one will take responsibility. At Chloe's grotesque, horrifying funeral, Colin cross-examines Jesus...