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* Linguistics: A Revolution in Teaching with Charles Weingartner ( Dell Publishing, 1966 ).
* Teaching as a Subversive Activity with Charles Weingartner ( Delacorte Press, 1969 )
* The Soft Revolution: A Student Handbook For Turning Schools Around with Charles Weingartner ( Delacorte Press, 1971 ).
* The School Book: For People Who Want to Know What All the Hollering is About with Charles Weingartner ( Delacorte Press, 1973 ).
The method was advocated by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner in their book Teaching as a Subversive Activity.
* Postman, Neil, and Weingartner, Charles ( 1969 ), Teaching as a Subversive Activity, Dell, New York, NY.

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An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.
Thus the first lines of one of Charles Wesley's hymns are as follows.
In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.
`` What is the point '', Charles Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking, `` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is ''??
When Peate returned to the pavilion he was reprimanded by his captain for not allowing his partner, Charles Studd ( one of the best batsman in England, having already hit two centuries that season against the colonists ) to get the runs.
Ken Mattingly had originally been assigned to the prime crew of Apollo 13, but was exposed to the measles through Charles Duke, at that time on the back-up crew for Apollo 13, who had caught it from one of his children.
At one point, Charles was forced to flee to Arnulf and ask for his protection.
The theory and the practice of Archduke Charles form one of the most curious contrasts in military history.
Wellington is better-known to posterity, because he led one of the two Allied armies at the final decisive victory of the Napoleonic Wars ( the battle of Waterloo in 1815 ), although Wellington's superior reputation is perhaps also because he only once faced Napoleon, whereas Charles was confronted by Napoleon in battle more times than any other commander.
On these occasions the reliable and yet unimaginative tactics Charles was fond of were not sufficient, except on one occasion at Aspern-Essling, to defeat the unpredictable Corsican.
But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires — the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.
" Lazarus went on to cite Capp as one of the " four essentials " in the field of newspaper cartoonists, along with Walt Kelly, Charles Schulz and Milton Caniff.
In the words of Charles Plummer, one of the best-known editors of the Historia Ecclesiastica, Bede's Latin is " clear and limpid ... it is very seldom that we have to pause to think of the meaning of a sentence ... Alcuin rightly praises Bede for his unpretending style.
Other actors that De Palma has worked with on more than one occasion include Jennifer Salt ( The Wedding Party, Hi, Mom !, and Sisters ), Charles Durning ( Hi, Mom !, Sisters, and The Fury ), Al Pacino ( Scarface and Carlito's Way ), John Lithgow ( Obsession, Blow Out and Raising Cain ), Sean Penn ( Casualties of War and Carlito's Way ), Amy Irving ( Carrie, The Fury and Casualties of War ( uncredited voice-over )), and John Travolta ( Carrie, Blow Out ).
In 1857 Charles Newton was to discover the 4th-century BC Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
On Halgaver Moor ( Goats ' Moor ) near Bodmin there was once an annual carnival in July which was on one occasion attended by King Charles II.
Charles Darwin proposed the theory of universal common descent through an evolutionary process in On the Origin of Species, twice stating the hypothesis that there was only one progenitor for all life forms and ending with " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ".
Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns ( including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth ) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop.
However after the obituary appeared, a nephew wrote to say that Charles Babbage was born one year earlier, in 1791.
Charles was now appointing the kings whom he supposedly served, rois fainéants who were mere puppets in his hands ; by the end of his reign they were so useless that he didn't even bother appointing one.
A meeting chaired by Charles A. Phillips was held at the Pentagon on May 28 and 29 of 1959 ( exactly one year after the Zürich ALGOL 58 meeting ); there it was decided to set up three committees: short, intermediate and long range ( the last one was never actually formed ).
Thus the " Cabal Ministry " never really unified in its members ' aims and sympathies, and fell apart by 1672 ; Lord Ashley, who became Earl of Shaftesbury, later became one of Charles II's fiercest opponents.
Charles Fleetwood was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety and of the Council of State, and one of the seven commissioners for the army.

Charles and founding
in Chemistry, 1974 ), founding president of Vassar College Milo Parker Jewett, founder and first president of Bates College Oren B. Cheney, founder and first president of Kenyon College Philander Chase, first professor of Wabash College Caleb Mills, and former president of Union College Charles Augustus Aiken.
He syncretized Abolitionism, Free Love, spiritual universalism, ( Josiah ) Warren, & ( Charles ) Fourier into a grand utopian scheme he called the Universal Pantarchy ... He was instrumental in founding several intentional communities ,” including the Brownstone Utopia ” on 14th St. in New York, & Modern Times ” in Brentwood, Long Island.
His younger brother Charles I of Sicily ( 1227 – 85 ) was created count of Anjou, thus founding the second Angevin dynasty.
The 1891 founding professors included Robert Allardice in mathematics, Douglas Houghton Campbell in botany, Charles Henry Gilbert in zoology, George Elliott Howard in history, Oliver Peebles Jenkins in physiology and histology, Charles David Marx in civil engineering, Fernando Sanford in physics and John Maxson Stillman in chemistry.
** Thomas Charles is instrumental in founding the British and Foreign Bible Society.
* May 29 – King Philip VI of France is crowned, founding the Valois Dynasty after the death of King Charles IV of France, who has no sons to inherit.
When his army surrendered, Charles XII of Sweden and a few soldiers escaped to Ottoman territory, founding a colony in front of Bender, Moldova.
Robert Charles Venturi, Jr. ( born June 25, 1925 in Philadelphia ) is an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major figures in the architecture of the twentieth century.
Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson ( AIEE, 1889 – 1890 ), Alexander Graham Bell ( AIEE, 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( AIEE, 1901 – 1902 ), Lee De Forest ( IRE, 1930 ), Frederick E. Terman ( IRE, 1941 ), William R. Hewlett ( IRE, 1954 ), Ernst Weber ( IRE, 1959 ; IEEE, 1963 ), and Ivan Getting ( IEEE, 1978 ).
There were eleven other founding members: Philip Absolon, Frances Castle, Sheila Clark, Eamon Everall, Ella Guru, Wolf Howard, Bill Lewis, Sanchia Lewis, Joe Machine, Sexton Ming, and Charles Williams.
* Earlier graduates include J. C. R. Licklider, pioneer in artificial intelligence ; Charles Nagel, founder of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce ; Julian Hill, co-inventor of nylon ; Clyde Cowan, co-discoverer of the neutrino ; James R. Thompson, Governor of Illinois ; David R. Francis, Governor of Missouri ; William H. Webster, former Director of the FBI ; Edward Singleton Holden, President of the University of California ; Nathan O. Hatch, president of Wake Forest University ; Thomas Lamb Eliot, President of Reed College ; and Abram L. Sachar, founding President of Brandeis University.
Before the powers could respond to the founding of the Roman Republic, Charles Albert, whose army had been trained by the exiled Polish general Albert Chrzanowski, renewed the war with Austria.
This led to the founding of the Association for World Peace ( AWP ) with Gollancz as chairman and Canon Charles Raven the vice-Chairman.
At age twenty Farrand was introduced to one of her primary mentors, the botanist Charles Sprague Sargent, who at Harvard University was both a professor of horticulture at the Bussey Institute and the founding director of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts.
Credit for the founding of UNCG goes mainly to Charles Duncan McIver, a crusader for the cause of women's education.
According to legend, the name Karlsruhe, which translates as Charles ’ repose, was given to the new city after a hunting trip when Margrave Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, woke from a dream in which he dreamt of founding his new city.
River travel made Lake Charles possible, just as mining for sulfur led to the founding of Sulphur.
These families were instrumental in the founding of many of Methuen's landmarks, including the Nevins Memorial Library, the Searles building, Tenney Gatehouse, Nevins Home, Spicket Falls, and the Civil War monument between Pleasant and Charles streets.
The founding Letters Patent were amended by succeeding monarchs on a number of occasions, such as by James I ( 1613 ) and most notably by Charles I ( who established the Board-then the Provost and seven senior Fellows-and reduced the panel of Visitors in size ) and supplemented as late as the reign of Queen Victoria ( and later still amended by the Oireachtas in 2000 ).
With his participation " little remained of the founding teleplay, except for actor Charles Bickford reprising his role.
He was a founding member of the Rapho agency, created in Paris by Charles Rado in 1933.
The founding members were all connected to the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and included Henri Cartan, Claude Chevalley, Jean Coulomb, Jean Delsarte, Jean Dieudonné, Charles Ehresmann, René de Possel, Szolem Mandelbrojt and André Weil.

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