Word: teaching
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Robert J. Kiely, master of Adams House and professor of English Literature, will go on sabbatical next year to teach at the University of Sichuan in Chendu in the People's Republic of China...
Politics unfortunately enter the classroom, too. A pious piece appearing in the Independent last year suggested that we "leave our ideological baggage at the door" of fair Harvard. We do not nor do our professors. To many of them, we do not exist. How can you teach a human sexuality course without discussing gay people? How can you teach a course on the Holocaust without mentioning the deaths of at least 250,000 gays? But professors do. They fail us, and non-gays too, not deliberately, but through a lack of awareness...
...that China has inundated America in the form of Bloomingdale oriental bazaars and tours of the Great Wall offered by our local travel agents, the impact of Fairbank's first writing can't be fully appreciated. Even when he takes up a familiar subject like footbinding, he continues to teach freshly...
...getting us into war." Aides also claim that polls show the nuclear-freeze movement has not caught on as widely as they feared. But that assessment will receive a test from April 18 to 25, when antinuclear activists launch Ground Zero Week, a nationwide campaign of seminars, lectures, teach-ins and marches, pointing up the horrors of nuclear...
Bishops respond to such charges by saying that they have no choice. Vatican II's documents, says Archbishop Roach, "require that the church not only teach the moral truths about the person. It must also join the public debate where policies are shaped, programs developed and decisions taken which directly touch the rights of the person." Monsignor George Higgins, a veteran social-action specialist, contends that speaking against the Bomb in particular is simply "what the Pope wants them...