Word: contention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French have provoked your writer (November 4), Mr. Rothenberg. French foreign policy, he tells us, lacks content and compounds injured vanity with a facade of anachronistic grandeur. Asserting that the French are a second-rate power, he wishes them to play the part, with help, if necessary, from the State Department. The current political evolution of Europe is of such historic import that I am writing you an alternative analysis of French foreign policy...
...dread god Exú, pronounced eh-shoe (see color page). As with other Bahian folk figures, Exú suffered a sea change in being transplanted from Africa. Among other things, he acquired the horns and trident of the Christian devil, and a wife (to keep him more content). Exú's power for death and destruction is unquestioned by thousands of believers, who rarely refer to him by name. They call him simply O Compadre (The Companion...
...difficulty both areas have in getting the proper senior faculty to teach undergraduate courses. Because of the vast gap between the level of professional work and the elementary nature of undergraduate work--a gap so great that the difference is not only of degree of sophistication but of content--many professors are either reluctant to teach undergraduates or incapable of making the transition...
Along with these changes in content have come those of organization. Gone is the "parade of stars" which formerly masqueraded as lectures. Instead there are now blocs of integrated lectures covering single aspects of the course, for example the series of lectures the first month that Professor Gill gave on economic history. Another long-standing distinguishing trait of the course, its extensive use of teaching fellows, is also...
...present situation is not tolerable. By its over-concern with theoretical models and tools, the Department has separated itself from the true materials of a liberal arts education in economics. It should not, however, allow itself to reach the other extreme, in its quest for concentrators, of reducing the content of the courses to a point where an economics student is no more qualified to discuss and solve an issue of political economy than an intelligent government concentrator...