Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formed in the heroic mold. A protean figure of bewildering facility and adaptability, he was the link between high historical painting and rococo elegance, able to invest a pen drawing with as much tension and airy scale as a painted ceiling. But generally the 18th century seemed to be Anglo-French territory: Italy's long moment of cultural supremacy had gone, the locus of energy shifted...
THERE is no clearer manifestation of the white, male, upper-class, Anglo-Saxon prejudice of Harvard's ruling elite than its open and proudly flaunted prejudice against women in admissions policy. And though it would be difficult to argue that a bright woman forced to go to, say, Vassar instead of Radcliffe is as oppressed as a Laotian peasant woman strafed by the U. S. Air Force, or a black woman or man in this country deprived of any sort of decent education at all, it is clear that a 50-50 admissions policy by next year is a cause...
...compensate for anticipated worldwide inflation. All in all, the oil companies will pay $1.2 billion more in royalties and taxes this year, a 25% increase in income for the producing nations. Iran's 1971 oil revenues of $1.8 billion will amount to five times what Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. paid the country between 1910 and 1951, when the company was nationalized. Last week's agreement is expected to bring the gulf countries an extra $10 billion in oil income over the next five years...
Many more Anglo-American layoffs could follow, even though most of Rolls seems likely to survive in one form or another. The profitable auto division will probably be sold by the company's receiver to another firm; at least three British automakers are preparing to bid for it. The government has introduced legislation to nationalize most of the engine divisions. Tory spokesmen, however, have been insisting that a nationalized Rolls will have "no obligation" to keep building RB-211 engines under the Lockheed contract, which proved Rolls' undoing...
Zayas asked for a meeting in which "decision-makers from WHRB (including a bilingual Anglo whom the station will provide) would hear a complete program which will be prototypical of what we can carry through the next term and afterwards." WHRB president Michael F. Kraley '71 agreed to Zayas's proposal...