Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specifically criticized a Third World symposium at the Law School last year that presented a human rights award to the Libyan ambassador. "Jews here have inexcusably been treated as second-class citizens," Dershowitz said...
...conversation even more than in writing that the center bares its collective soul. To simplify the premise of Plato's Symposium only a little, your thinking man should be able to talk with his mouth full, dauntless even in the presence of hiccups. An informal daily dialogue is staged in the sunken dining area of the center by men and women whose mouths are deliciously occupied with golden corn bread, creamy fried chicken and other Carolina dishes prepared by the cooks-in-residence, Alice and Lucy...
...what is a liberal arts scholar good for? The question, of course, has not been answered, unless it counts to discover that such questions can have no final answers. Plato's Symposium ends with a vision of Socrates standing fixed in thought from early dawn until noon, until sunset, until early dawn of the following day. The image may seem comic at first, but it be comes moving and finally majestic, even though nobody ever learns what Socrates was thinking. Plato gave the only explanation necessary. The unexamined life, he said, is not worth living. Meanwhile, back...
Thomas' "error," a word he traces back to an old root meaning "to wander about, looking for something," occurred in 1970, when he put together a short, casual talk on the phenomenon of inflammation and what it might represent as a biological process. He delivered it at a symposium held at Upjohn Co.'s Brook Lodge in Michigan. A member of the audience passed a copy of the speech to Dr. Franz Joseph Ingelfinger, then the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Ingelfinger had already roiled the academic waters by warning potential contributors that medical research...
...Symposium on Burgundy--lectures by Ingrid Brainard, Jan Siggins, Arthur L. Loeb, Peter Jordan, Robert Bousquet, Konrad Oberhuber, and Barbara Wheaton; Emerson 210, 10 a.m.-12 noon; Boyiston Auditorium...