Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...were never supposed to become a part of the landscape, the temporary shelters soon began to look like permanent poorhouses. Architects studied how to build better shelters; interior decorators worked to beautify them. The late Mitch Snyder, the ubiquitous crusader, created a vast Washington shelter that was considered a model of its kind. "It is the best shelter in the world," he once said of his creation, "but it is an abomination and should be destroyed...
...very model of modern Roman Catholic femininity: wife, mother and the first woman in Germany appointed to teach theology under church auspices. For good measure, Uta Ranke-Heinemann was a convert from Protestantism, the daughter of a West German President and the wife of a first cousin of Poland's Catholic Primate. Nonetheless, in 1987 the German hierarchy forced the University of Essen to oust Ranke-Heinemann from her Catholic professorship and give her another teaching post that would not imply any church endorsement. Her sin: in defiance of Christian teaching, Ranke-Heinemann had concluded that Mary...
...white teachers are often afraid to make strong demands on black kids." At Dumas, that means offering sympathy that a student's parents had a fight the previous night but then insisting on the need to do one's homework anyway. Bart Simpson, in short, is a lousy role model; try Martin Luther King...
...writing The New Russians was more like using a tumbleweed as a model--Smith had to look hard and write fast, because by the time he was finished, his subject was five miles away and looked completely different...
...last meeting, some professors said they thought an international relations certificate would have little meaning, while others greeted the Rhodes-like scholarship proposal with skepticism. Others said they were reluctant to have Harvard create a scholarship modeled after what they said was the "Anglo-centric vision" of the Rhodes model...