Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the upper hand, Batista drove boldly around the city while his cops proceeded to make their supremacy complete. When a patrol car radioed that it had clashed with rebels and had "a dead man and a prisoner," the dispatcher ordered: "Shoot him." At midafternoon, cops burst into a boardinghouse, grabbed three young men who were leaders of Cuba's lay Catholic Action movement, which sympathizes with Castro. Two hours later their stripped, tortured and bullet-torn bodies were turned over to relatives. Total dead...
...outside the pen, finger on the button. Whenever the No. 1 hen tried to eat or peck, it got an electric shock. It also got a shock when the low-ranking hen of the pair plucked up courage to peck it. After a short course of this treatment, the upper-class hens began to have serious doubts about their place in society...
Twelve treatments were enough. Smith and Hale reported that each group had its social order turned upside down. Its top hen became its bottom hen. In two out of three groups, the bottom hen rose to the top. In all groups, the upper middle-class hen-No. 2-clung most tenaciously to its position. The No. 25 needed twice as many shocks as the others to accept a new place in society...
David Riesman '31 will teach a half course, Social Sciences 136, "Character and Culture in America," during his first year as professor of Social Sciences. Other upper level courses planned by the Committee on General Education, are Humanities 136, "Poetry and Experience," to be taught by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and Humanities 137, "The Classics in the Renaissance," which will be given by Hanna H. Gray, instructor in General Education...
...that the history of science is a part of science," the report tells us. This is undoubtedly true, and it is also true that the report does show a concern over the presentation of the scientific method. However, in the leap from report to practice, history gained the upper hand, and method was somewhat lost in the shuffle. A first step towards putting the natural sciences in a modern perspective would be to remedy this situation...