Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mildred Andrews Fund, which extended the offer to the University this fall, will likely agree to fund any other sculpture on the topic of gay liberation that Harvard chooses to commission, Peter Putnam, the trustee in charge of the fund, said last night...
...about how Detroit is really and truly a "Renaissance City" (and not just another car slum), or about how much better one team is than another, or even how amazing it is that the Forty-Niners have a barefoot kicker, I would like to say that my Super Bowl topic concerns my blond and beautiful California roommate. Want to read a little bit further? I thought you would...
...ROOKIE AUTHOR has chosen a suitable topic and manages to avoid the condemnations that would have made the book altogether trite. There is no easy solution for the inefficiency of American democracy; after seeing it up close, Fromson admits that. He pinpoints the underlying force propelling government: the self-interest of those the government employs. And he understands that on the one hand, self-interest can disguise itself as noble loyalty to a leader or an ideology, and that on the other, decent, hard-working folk will settle for compromise rather than risk a costly defeat at the hands...
...began over a cool brew in a warm tavern. Young gentlemen at the College of William and Mary in revolutionary Virginia drew up plans for a society of good fellowship and spirited debate. (Sample topic: "Whether Polygamy is a dictate of Nature or not.") They devised a secret handshake and an initiation rite. The group, in fact, might have ended up as just one more fraternity but for a sober motto-and philosophy-based on the Greek letters ΦBK : "love of wisdom the guide of life." The Virginia chapter collapsed after only five years, in 1781, but not before...
...name of the New Math by "arrogantly inept" mathematicians who do not teach beginners. Like many other classroom algebra teachers, he found that such textbooks emphasize mathematical theory at the expense of practice and are usually written in baffling jargon. Emphasis is placed on rapid exposure to many "topics," or procedures. Before students can master one topic, explains Saxon, they must move on to a new one. The great sin, he insists, is that the books teach abstract theory first and skills second-the reverse of the order in which children normally learn...