Word: ambition
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be in much more trouble if race was the whole factor in admissions," he said, adding, "This way we know we are safely within the ambit of the Supreme Court decision...
Harvard, too, is an insular community, and its limited ambit is no less confining despite the fact that its boundaries are self-imposed rather than natural. Pummelled by the waters of Brattle Street, buffeted by the roaring English Channel winds of Memorial Drive, isolated by the icy North Sea depths of Quincy Street, Harvard suffocates the adventuresome with the dull academic chatter of the senior common room and the unchanging faces of the dining hall. Like their insulated Old World counterparts, Harvard students conjure up their own voyage imagery, succulent with their peculiar symbols of exotic retreats and flaming foreign...
...only to lose in the Supreme Court by a resounding 8-0 tally in the famous Plamondon case (formally known as U.S. v. U.S. District Court). Wilson nonetheless professed to find sustenance in even that decision, since Justice Lewis Powell had specifically excluded foreign threats to security from the ambit of his opinion...