Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wiser still to adopt a neutral label, if a label is necessary: "consciousness-altering drugs." The phrase "mind-distorting drugs" pushes forward an arbitrary and unscientific evaluation. It's unnecessarily prejudicial. The Harvard statement should be amended to exclude this impropriety of phraseology...
...C.E.P., a body under no strong obligations to departmental ideas and in a position to lead the liberalization of requirements in the Faculty, has lost heart and wants to backtrack. The original notion behind C.L.G.S. needs champions who can reverse the C.E.P. vote in today's meeting, and adopt the excellent proposal the committee unaccountably rejected. If the departments are to have further influence on "General Studies," whose very name means learning outside concentration, it should be on expanding rather than restricting the degree...
...easy to evoke for white readers the pace of Harlem life, or to clarify for them the attitude of a man who has emerged from the ghetto. To do so, even before the most sympathetic of audiences, Baldwin must adopt an unfamiliar mode of writing, must continually attempt to find new ways of expressing old thoughts--and then must pray for an intelligent reading and an adaptable audience...
Furthermore, the article represents the H.C.U.A. discussion as a struggle to adopt a specific proposal. Actually (thanks to the insight of Mr. Russin), the investigation of the problem is just beginning. No decisions have or will be made until there is a through study of the situation. Frederic I. Kass...
...have no choice but to adopt the anti-jay walking law passed by the state legislature," Cambridge Traffic Director Rudolph said yesterday. "And if the walking situation around Harvard Square doesn't improve radically, there will be more than just nominal enforcement of the law sometime next spring." Then the legislature passed the law last spring, it left adoption and enforcement up to the individual communities. unless the City adopts the anti-jay-walking measure, Rudolph says, the Commonwealth will deny Cambridge's legal to enforce certain kinds of new traffic laws. This would apply to motor vehicle or pedestrian...