Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western culture, creating a generation of cultural illiterates. As evidence he cites a 1985 study by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Among other lacunae, it found that two-thirds of the high schoolers surveyed did not know when the Civil War was fought, and half could not identify Winston Churchill. "One's literacy depends upon the breadth of one's acquaintance with a national culture," Hirsch writes...
...openness totally at odds with the actions of Oliver North and Richard Secord. The plan was debated in a full Cabinet meeting. Even though he was in the midst of a hard-fought re- election campaign, Roosevelt felt compelled to consult Wendell Willkie, his G.O.P. rival. In cooperation with Winston Churchill, the Administration constructed a legal loophole: trading the destroyers for military bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda and the West Indies. While the matter was still being debated, a legal brief supporting the President's position was published in the New York Times. Roosevelt also wrote a personal letter justifying...
...able to identify a hundred or more species of birds. About 7 million Americans are fairly interested birders (able to identify at least 40 species), and 60 million, or one American in four, are at least casual watchers. Veteran birders, such as L. Hartsell Cash, a retiree in Winston-Salem, N.C., are pleasantly surprised by the sport's new respectability. "In the '40s and '50s it was still a little embarrassing to be a bird watcher," he says. "Now there's no doubt about it -- birding...
...reasons for increasing tuitions and decreasing financial aid may be sound, but as Columbia senior Winston A. Willis says, "obviously the educational system will continue, but it won't be as diverse. It will suffer without input from Black and minority minds...
Foundation representatives "have been unequivocal in stating their intention to sustain the program for three years," said Jay Winston, director of the SPH's Center for Health Communication. Harvard will continue to donate to the program in kind, but does not plan direct financial support, he added...