Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently was capable of producing an instant cacophony of complaint in Congress, in churches and on campuses across the land, have begun to lose heart. Last week, for example, when U.S. forces in Viet Nam climbed above the 300,000-man mark, there were no full-page ads, no teach-ins, no placard-studded demonstrations to mark the milestone...
...campus, most protest groups have been less noisy than they were last spring, and vacations are not entirely responsible. "This is not the wild and woolly teach-in atmosphere of last year," said French-born Southeast Asia Expert Bernard Fall, a levelheaded critic of Administration policy, after a discussion on Viet Nam at the University of Illinois last week. "There is far less 'Let's clean up the Chinese' on one hand and 'Let's get the hell out' on the other...
...Roman Catholic Church. Fearful that Brazil's liberal, reform-minded church was spreading agitation in the depressed Northeast, the generals hauled in priests and bishops alike for questioning, forced several into "voluntary" exile, and cracked down on such "subversive" church organizations as labor syndicates and classes to teach adults to read...
Part-Time Professors. Mainly because of dismally low salaries, most Latin American faculties consist of part-time teachers whose main interest is in their outside jobs in law, medicine or politics. At San Marcos, only 57 of 1,344 professors teach fulltime, have little opportunity or incentive to do scholarly research. In inflation-ridden Brazil, where professors seldom make more than $200 a month, university teachers moonlight on two or three different jobs to make ends meet. Understandably, a Buenos Aires student complains: "It is very difficult to study with professors who very often have less knowledge than those being...
...hard, isolated, but rewarding. In the remote areas, they often had to make the clothes they wore, the candles they burned and even the bullets they used to drive off marauding bands of Bushmen. They built their own sturdy homes, used the Bible -the only book they had-to teach their children how to read. When they saw their neighbors, it was usually when they rode to worship at the nearest church, often a two-day journey from their farm. There was no shortage of labor, however. Hottentots and imported East Indian slaves were easy to come by and inexpensive...