Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Luanda is a pretty seaside town of red-roofed buildings with typically Portuguese pastel-colored walls in soft hues of pink, blue, green and yellow. But the paint is peeling badly, and the broad, tree-shaded boulevards are developing potholes and are littered with derelict cars. Huge shells of buildings started by the Portuguese now stand idle and abandoned. Most stores, cafes and restaurants are shuttered. The language of the capital remains Portuguese, but otherwise, reminders of the departed colonialists are fast being removed...
About 10% of the 53,854 royal blue and egg-yolk yellow molded plastic seats around the stadium have yet to be installed. Another 5,415 temporary seats will be added, plus space cleared for 14,000 standees, but plans to air-condition the structure fell early victim to lagging work schedules. Though the stadium has an open top, it is designed so that no wind blows on the field-ideal for the record books but not the runners and spectators. July heat could cause "the climate on the field to resemble the threshold of hell," says Larry Eldridge, athletics...
...October 1975 Letter to the Faculty on Undergraduate Education--the so-called "yellow letter"--Rosovsky outlined his criticisms of the present undergraduate system, criticisms he obviously believes have resulted from the "new liberalizations." Although he maintains that "nothing we are proposing will be terribly restrictive," he nonetheless believes "the problem today is that people have too many choices." Unlike several members of his staff and of the Faculty, Rosovsky says he does not think "that students are in a position" to decide what their educational priorities should be: he calls this his "legendary conservatism in these matters...
This task force evidently also felt that many majors--particularly the large ones in the social sciences like Government or History--have no hierarchy or order to the learning they expect from concentrators. As Rosovsky said in his "yellow letter," there is no "self-evident pattern of sequence" in these areas...
...philosophy that there are certain basic courses everyone should take--inspires the most vehement Faculty reactions. Although Rosovsky now says he has not yet settled how he feels about a core curriculum, all the statements he has made to date about structuring curriculum indicate that "yellow letter II"--the report he will release next fall on the work of the task forces--will not outline a system of total electives, but will include some form of core...