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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Torrens, the president of the Alumni Council, suggested on August 14 that an impartial committee be appointed to evaluate the directions of the school. This suggestion was politely dismissed by Bok on August 30, who wrote, "Since the dissident faculty will not admit that they are disputing the dean's objectives, their concern will not be alleviated by such a review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arbitrate the Hiatt Affair | 10/19/1978 | See Source »

Secondly, the use of nuclear power necessitates our complete and perfect control of this resource to avoid massive and perhaps final disaster. Nuclear power advocates will admit that the chance of nuclear meltdown exists, though it is a very, very slim possibility. Are nuclear power plants as safe as Hooker Chemical Company believed its disposal methods at the Love Canal were in 1962? No one can know. In this sense, man's ignorance may seal a fate he has shaped...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Seeing Through the Apocalypse | 10/19/1978 | See Source »

...deserves a defense. Unquestionably, his wealthy New Yorkers and suburbanites have much in common. The author describes them in one story as "the company of those people who were most free to develop their gifts." These fortunate few are much more significant than critics seeking raw social realism will admit. Well outside the mainstream, the Cheever people nonetheless reflect it admirably. What they do with themselves is what millions upon millions would do, given enough money and time. And their creator is less interested in his characters as rounded individuals than in the awful, comic and occasionally joyous ways they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inescapable Conclusions | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...believe final clubs have been personally insulting women for the last hundred years," Shofner said, adding that "hopefully people two years from now will take my actions further and admit women to the club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Invade All-Male Final Club Punching Party | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

...America's striking lack of an electoral labor party, and in its place, "business unionism," concerned only with wages hours, benefits; America's Horatio Alger myths of upward mobility, still pervasive despite the historical evidence that demonstrates much more rigidity than pluralists or consensus historians will admit. But spare us the hot tubs and razor blades. Leftists take showers...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Hey, Good Lookin', Whatcha Got Cookin'? | 10/7/1978 | See Source »

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