Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instruction remains the significant problem area in this as in other colleges. The lecture system, first target of many reformers, has many desirable elements for a large institution. It is, however, no panacea. Its excuse is the means of allowing a "great" man to speak to large numbers of people, and when a lecturer is mediocre or worse the system is less than worthwhile. Lectures should, therefore, be considered not as the only educational method at Harvard, but rather as one of many systems or combinations of systems available to departments or faculty men planning their courses...
...glasses, the Americans watched the Russians watching them through glasses of their own. As the U.S. party waited in the hot sun, some Russians fired a few quick bursts from an automatic weapon. Some of the Americans flexed for a dive to cover. Then they checked: this was only target practice...
When Novelist Henry James was 46 and a target for hostile English and American critics, he wrote to Fellow Novelist William Dean Ho wells: "Some day all my buried prose will kick off its various tombstones at once." Were James alive today (he died in 1916), he could hardly fail to be gratified by the many exhumations which have been carried on in his literary graveyard in the past ten years. The latest tombstone to be lifted has been pried up by the publishing house of Macmillan, which once spurned his writing as "honest scribble work and no more...
...observer, descendant of a long line of U.S. Army cavalrymen, trotted back down the line and reined in beside me. 'A white horse in the advance guard,' he muttered. 'Officers smoking cigarettes. Troops chattering. No security patrols out on the flanks. We're a sitting target if anyone cares to ambush...
Chinese Nests. James was often the butt of smart young London intellectuals in the years before World War I. Everything about Henry James made him an easy target for their wit-particularly his resolute love of England in the face of the English stories that were told about him and the jokes that were played...