Word: turner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...department would have to go and reconsider the proposed road, make adjustments in its design plans and come up with a new design. With all the legal points which could come up for appeal, opponents of the road could delay it for a long, long time," said Francis C. Turner, director of Public Roads...
...Turner also said that he anticipated that Bridwell will act soon on the proposal. The new Federal administration taking office in January will include a replacement for Bridwell...
...lectures are ill-suited for freshmen and sophomores. I put in anecdotes to illustrate points--students complain if lectures become straight factual presentations. I assumed when I saw their backgrounds--and these are great kids, caught up in a great movement -- that these students already knew about Nat Turner and John Brown. But I was assuming too much knowledge on their part. Now I'm trying to give lectures that have more emphasis on fundamentals...
...PROGRESSIVE HISTORIANS, by Richard Hofstadter. A graceful and perceptive study of three men-Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V. L. Parrington-who have most shaped America's conception of its past...
...this awareness that reveals Le Carrè as the Sartre of diplomatic and espionage literature. His protagonists stumble through the subterranean maze of contemporary crises in search of a sudden illuminating truth, such as the one that strikes Turner as he unravels the cause of Harting's betrayal. Hatred was not Harting's motive; instead, it was a need to defy the aimlessness and indifference of diplomatic life. "He'd escaped from lethargy. That's the point, isn't it: the opposite of love isn't hate. It's lethargy. Nothingness...