Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article entitled 'Sleazy Letters' oversimplifies the issues of affirmative action. You imply that the only way Third World people can enter into the higher education institutions is by these "quota systems" which, in turn, select only the people least qualified. You then imply that the only reason that these "quota systems" were established came about as a result of the violence of other Third World people who did this because they did not have anything better to do with their time. By this you imply that there are no qualified Third World students that would enter into Graduate programs...
...fears that an action expressing the will of the majority of the Harvard community is potentially oppressive to some vague minority of individuals. (Which individuals, with what stakes, we ask?) He contorts logic to imply that the present University position is neutral--he is always trying to elevate his position to the pedestal of the neutral. Come now. Is an untenured professor any safer speaking out for divestiture today than he or she would be speaking out for aid to aprtheid after divestiture had occured...
Richard Marius, director of Expository Writing, said he abolished fiction Expos because he believes many freshmen who take it do not learn how to write an expository essay. Marius's educational objection is understandable in a University that emphasizes expository essay skills, but his actions evidently stemmed from additional, less justifiable reasons. Marius said he would compromise and run the program personally for one more year until one of the fiction teachers protested his decision, reasoning that Marius would have enough power over the program in his position as Expos director. Marius's abrupt action in cancelling the program when...
...likes the character and admires him because of his heroic act that ends the film. Both Fonda and Lemmon say that the point of the film is that ordinary people, who fear for their jobs, who normally don't give much thought to politics, are capable of extraordinary action when they see something terribly wrong. As Lemmon said of his character, "No Caesar he--he was the average man, who behaved instinctively and morally unto himself when the circumstances demanded it, but he didn't plan...
Some fault may lie with Moliere. The plot is typically weak. The main action consists of an endless cocktail party, a number of ephemeral, off-stage lawsuits, and Alceste's failure to snare the insincere coquette, Celimene, on his terms of absolute sincerity...