Word: endeavour
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Professor Randall Kennedy on the disruption of speeches by South African officials. According to your story, he though such action appropriate because those who invited them "are not authentically curious about what they have to say." The invitation, he claims, "is a political action and not an educational endeavour." When asked whether it would be appropriate to beat or even kill such speakers, Professor Kennedy replied that it was "a close call, something I'd have to think deeply about." Has our deep thinker considered that there are many students who would find abhorrent the appearance on campus...
...Burmah Endeavour is a modern supertanker that can carry 458,000 tons of crude oil, enough to fuel all of Britain for two days. But for the past three years, the great ship has been out of work. It lies at anchor in the port of Southampton, manned only by two security guards who walk its 5 1/2 acres of decks. Meanwhile, 17 more big tankers stand idle in fjords along the coast of Norway. At the port of Fujairah, near the mouth of the Persian Gulf, Harbor Master Roger Turnbull begins each day in his control tower by counting...
...active Black/minority organization at Harvard that has published a respected journal for the past two years: The W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society. Indeed, we are not the only forum for the scholarly work and opinion of minorities. The Afro-American Studies 1985-86 Lecture Series is but one such endeavour among many. We of the Du Bois Society look forward to our Third Annual Colloquium, to be held in late February, and to the publication of the subsequent proceedings. The W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society
...this time was the burden of the past the notion that earlier poets had expressed everything original that was to expressed about man and his existence, and had done it so well. While we do not associate the eighteenth century with the most prolitic periods of creative endeavour, it should be recalled that Wordsworth, Blake and Coleridge were all children of the age. And although their craft may not be quite's scintillating as the more famous poets before and after their time, the minor poets Lonsdale has uncovered do add credence to the notion that as long as there...
...primitive art, Douglas Newton, to bring the work to the U.S. was conspicuously worthwhile. For Americans, a walk through the Metropolitan's exhibit is a voyage of discovery, as astonishing as the sight of Maori art must have been in 1769, when Captain James Cook's Endeavour first touched New Zealand's shore. When the ship's artist, Sydney Parkinson, went inland, he marveled at the Maoris' "particular taste for carving...