Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those at the rally who had bought both dictators, but also obscuring the main theme of the meeting. The Cuban people want neither Castro nor Batista. They demand freedom. However, that commentator, long a servant of Soviet aggression as head of the Peace Alliance and the ElSalvador Committee, seems unfamiliar with the desire for democracy, and his statement is thus not surprising...
Ozment says that the department does not believe that tutors can provide useful instruction in areas with which they are unfamiliar. One tutor points out, however, that while it is difficult to teach an unfamiliar topic, there is no reason to assume that non-Western or "Third World" topics are any less familiar to a Medieval historian than the subtleties of Freudian theory--a new topic under the recent proposals...
...five out of 27" statistic mentioned above will only get worse unless an effort is made to generate an increasing number of scholars in areas on the other side of the iron and bamboo curtains, and south of the Rio Grande. Failing to introduce these unfamiliar fields at an early stage of a student's education will only serve to decrease his interest. And in any case, tutors generally describe the topics less familiar to sophomores as the most intellectually stimulating...
...their particular class. But under the proposed revisions, the department will remove suggested reading lists for non-required areas from the materials supplied to tutors. Tutors say they enjoy teaching challenging subjects, but in the future, if they must compile a list for topics with which they are unfamiliar, they will be less likely to choose the elective and less likely to present it well...
...already published The Origin of Species, assuring himself a slice of eternity and a reputation as one of history's most influential scientific thinkers. But, Mendel remained an obscure Austrian cleric, an inconsequential geneticist whose genius was not recognized until 20 years after, his death. Darwin was certainly unfamiliar with the monk's work, and Mendel has left no word of what he thought of Darwin's evolutionary theory, a theory that tried to explain the diversity and similarities among organisms, both past and present...