Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lagon may be "unwilling to fight in earnest" for his views, and may secretly fear that he and they are unable to withstand the challenge of ideological diversity. For our part, we applaud the appointment of professors who will challenge the conventional wisdom, whether more the "right" or the "left" or in the name of a new philosophy or fresh methodology. We know that there are too few, far too few, in the Arts departments of this University. Mr. Lagon will, we are afraid, emerge fundamentally unchallenged from his years at Harvard; perhaps his intellectual timorousness is the consequence...
Avant-gardists might applaud his lyrical technique and solid bebop chops while nurturing doubts about his innovative abilities. D'Rivera tends a little toward caution himself-"I like electronics," he says, "but I am very careful with it"-and, even when searching for fresh inspiration, tends to stay close to the roots...
...does not mean the commission has yet been able to create the consensus necessary to push its ambitious program through Congress, let alone remove Central American policy as an issue in this year's presidential campaign. The findings, in classic presidential-commission style, included something for everybody to applaud, but they also contained something for everybody to denounce. A number of liberal Democrats attacked the panel's stress on military aid and its refusal to countenance any form of power sharing between the right-wing government and leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. Said Maryland Congressman Michael Barnes...
...member of the Harvard community by rescheduling the Commencement date. Although this may change some people's plans, precedent set by such an action would more than justify any inconvenience. We are confident that when informed of the reasons behind the rescheduling, most people will concur with and applaud the University...
When the latest affirmative action results came out; there was a strange complacency in the University. Although the report showed Harvard very seriously behind in its affirmative action efforts, there was little University comment until the Association of Black Faculty and Administrators began to take notice. We applaud the Association's efforts and hope that they will encourage the University to revamp its affirmative action policy and check a dangerous decline in its once hopeful affirmative action efforts...