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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That separation has meant that public schools don't teach religion, which in turn has brought about a dissociation of Christian (but not Jewish) religion from intellectual endeavor. American Christians, the dean of the Divinity School says, worship more out of "childlike faith" than scholarly piety...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Big Change, Strange Circumstance | 11/1/1975 | See Source »

Buckley commented that the chair is difficult to fill because it is interdisciplinary and that there is some disagreement as to whether its occupant should teach about Canada or just be an eminent Canadian scholar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Canada Chair Given Eight Years Ago Still Lies Fallow | 10/31/1975 | See Source »

...busy as skating keeps him, it is only one of two major interests which are always, he explains, "in a neck-and-neck race to consume my time." He is majoring in music, and hopes to obtain a masters in the subject, and eventually to teach...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Blind Figure Skater from Philadelphia Will Join 'Champions' at Watson Rink | 10/31/1975 | See Source »

Just as he lets these hopes carry him away, however, he catches himself. "I still have to prove myself before I can suppose to teach anything to another person. I haven't even finished learning myself; there's such a long way still...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Blind Figure Skater from Philadelphia Will Join 'Champions' at Watson Rink | 10/31/1975 | See Source »

...natural enjoyment, it earns him only the temporary approbation of the authorities, leaving him ultimately at their mercy. At the end of the play, the tutor doffs his persona and steps forward to explain, for those who might have missed it, the moral of the allegory. "Let his servility teach you to be free," he pontificates. It's a hard lesson to accept, considering that the world Brecht constructs fails to admit of any real possibility of freedom...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: If Thy Eye Offend Thee | 10/29/1975 | See Source »

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