Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Said Cristina R. Diaz '91, an Ec 10 student, "I would complain about the unusefulness of the green textbook." She also said, "They're very conservative... They should have more radical speakers come and talk...
...down that textbook and pick up a piece of paper and a pencil. Try to think of Shoeless Joe, not Shakespeare. Of the Say Hey Kid, not Ho Chi Minh. Of curveballs, not bell curves...
Administration officials now fear that what they expected to be a textbook study in swiftly dislodging a tyrant will turn into a bloody, drawn-out struggle. "The assumption was that despite all his defects, he cared about the welfare of Panama," says a State Department official. "Well, Noriega cares exclusively about Noriega, and he will use every means at his disposal to hold...
Chagall's was a textbook case of the way some artists receive their subject matter, their grammar of signs, in childhood. He was a child of the Russian ghetto, born in the town of Vitebsk in 1887; his father was a herring packer, his grandfather a cantor and kosher butcher, his uncle an amateur violinist. The imagery of music and shtetl folklore, mingled with the face of his childhood sweetheart (and future wife), Bella Ro- senfeld, furnished the unaltering ground of his work for 80 years, long after the close-knit and weak little societies it represented had been incinerated...
...thought we had his character analysis correct down to the last petty neurosis. After all, he seemed a textbook case of rabidly loyal third world dictator. Why, his sense of loyalty seemed so profound that his vicious jackboot secret police force were nicknamed after a breed of dog: dobermans. They dressed in black. A nice touch...