Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rather than taking the action proposed by the visiting committee, Dean Rosovsky and President Bok decided to adopt a different strategy to deal with the problems of the department...
Coming off a two-game winning streak at the close of three consecutive losing seasons, Durst and his teammates will face an expanded schedule next year as Harvard and the Ivies adopt a ten-game season for the first time...
With so many lives in danger, an obvious first step was to adopt a policy of coolness and flexibility. Toward that end, the White House asked both Congressmen and presidential hopefuls to refrain from inflaming the situation. For the most part the candidates agreed. Early in the week, Republicans Ronald Reagan and John Connally criticized the Administration's handling of the affair, only to draw a rebuke from a third G.O.P. contender, Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee. After a briefing session for congressional leaders at the White House, Democratic Senator Scoop Jackson of Washington declared: "Restraint is the order...
With misleading ease, Updike excavates the sources of this depression: the inability to establish intimacy, guilt, lack of self-awareness. But his sickness distracts from the absence of the logical next step. To adopt an Updike device...
...seems that through the gates of 'Veritas' Harvard come innocent, young people who are eager to learn and to do good for "their fellow man." But something happens to them during their four or five years at Harvard. First thing they do is adopt the "Harvard broad A." That's the first sign that the freshman student is beginning to change. Then they wear a crimson sweater with a huge "H". Another sign that they are fast becoming a part of the Harvard indoctrination. Before you know it these young "virgin people" are beginning to talk and act like...