Word: teach
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...point he said, "We have arrived at the end. We thank ..." Then his voice trailed off. A little later, he asked those around him to "pray for me." His last words were to the effect that the death of a Pope is like that of others, "but it can teach men something." At 9:40 p.m. he died, so peacefully that his aides at first thought he had only fallen asleep...
...major role of a school is to teach games (and to create 'character' through games) the academic goals, in deed all intellectual and artistic values of any sort, are likely to suffer. And that meant that anyone who wanted to pursue intellectual activities or was any good at them would suffer too. There were forces working towards this in the public schools in any case. The classics were so boring, their mastery so much a special skill, that most people were instinctively irritated at anyone good at them. It was unfair. Again, those who spend...
...once included the works of John Locke, Victor Hugo and Voltaire. In theological controversy, excommunication and charges of heresy gave way to milder methods. Even Swiss Theologian Hans Küng's celebrated critique of papal infallibility was handled gently: Küng was simply warned not to teach such opinions in the future, but did not have to recant them...
...many diplomatic initiatives, including a long and fruitless attempt to mediate peace in VietNam and similarly frustrating efforts in Biafra, Northern Ireland and the Middle East, his Ostpolitik was the most successful. His overtures to the Communist world helped to win the church such concessions as limited freedom to teach, nominations of new bishops and permission for public festivals. They also settled such ancient controversies as the 18-year isolation of Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty at the U.S. Legation in Budapest...
...past three summers Ana Maria has left Harvard and gone back home to teach in San Domingo. During the Spring semester Ana Maria continued her teaching in Cambridge helping with a student initiated study-for-action group on education. Sitting in the Education for Action office in the Radcliffe Gym, Ana, along with eight other undergraduates, examined the problems and possibilities of education in diverse environments: Appalachia, the inner-city Puerto Rico...