Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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No Clues. Dr. Segal first discovered that slugs have an extraordinary biological clock that runs true for a whole year. Wild slugs regularly start laying eggs about the first of August. By 1958 Dr. Segal had a whole second generation of slugs that had no experience of any environment but...
As Jim Stark, Dean is superb in his portrayal of a teenager with more energy than direction, forced by his family to move from town to town to escape his past. He makes every attempt to adjust to his new environment, but there is an insurmountable obstacle in the form...
The central theme of the essay is clear: "There is a dearth of self-propelled students in the local environment." Or, in other words, we are all too "other-directed" for our own good. "Other-directed," that is, to the point of being individually original, which, in the words of...
Monro added that students not only fail often to think for themselves, but also fail to discover that this process is "fun." He praised the teaching methods of David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences. Using his "Chicago method," Riesman conducts panel discussions in class and encourages his...
Bartle was not the coalition's target. The real enemy was City Manager L. P. (for Laurie Perry) Cookingham, 62, hired by the reform Citizens Association when it took over in 1940. In the pre-1940 high-flying days of Tom Pendergast's corrupt rule, after-hours liquor...