Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who have little immediate interest in acquiring the skills offered by Quantitative Reasoning A and Applied Sciences 11. But if what we hear about a space shuttle in every garage before the end of the century is true, learning the basics is probably inevitable, and Harvard should teach them efficiently and fairly. Perhaps then some of those poor souls throwing away their guaranteed student loans on Pac-Man and Alpine Ski could be lured into more productive space-age pursuits...
...department to teach writing." MacCaffrey said, explaining that "when writing isn't crystal clear, it's usually because ideas aren't crystal clear in the head...
...revenue office administrator replied with a letter explaining why the Hebrew lessons could not be registered: the language was not approved by the ministry of education, and furthermore, Begun was not licensed to teach it. "If there were a need for the language to be taught," the letter continued, "it would be taught. Since it isn't taught, there is no need." Begun, the state decided, was not engaged in "socially useful work...
...other improbable events, along with scores of more predictable demonstrations in places like Palo Alto, Calif., and Boston, were part of the largest collective outpouring to date of ordinary Americans' worries about the prospect of nuclear conflict. Ground Zero Week, a seven-day marathon of films and sober teach-ins, performances and lectures, was designed to illuminate issues of nuclear strategy and, more pointedly, the ultimate horror of nu clear war. It was conceived and led by Roger Molander, 41, until last year an expert on strategic arms limitation for the National Security Council...
...cold war soured the old idealism. "Freedom that was a thing to use/ They've made a thing to save," MacLeish wrote bitterly in Brave New World (1948), "And staked it in and fenced it round/ Like a dead man's grave." An appointment to teach English at Harvard in 1949 removed the poet from the public arena. A kindly man, he found that he liked instructing the young and that they liked him. In later years, MacLeish turned toward a new questioning of fundamentals. From the ancient paradoxes of Job he created J.B., which...