Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the Harvard president said Schkolnick's complaint contained complex issues. "A lot depends on whether the clubs are purely social. If they are, whether or not I agree with them, its seems to fall under the area of free choice," he said. Citing the possible argument that the clubs help forge future business connections, Bok did not say definitively whether he thought her suit had legal merit...
...offers the hypothesis admist a cloud of scientific jargon claiming to explain much. Yet when the smoke clears, so does the plausibility of his argument. Sheldrake attempts to disprove physical theory by proposing the existence of "pure information" in addition to matter and energy. This information provides the foundation for morphic fields and allows them to persist undiminished through time and space. Though he offers a few tests of this theory. Sheldrake explains away outcomes that would seem to disprove his proposal. He himself is extremely credulous, gleeful that his ideas allow for telepathy, reincarnation, collective memory and the like...
Cooper argues convincingly that I wouldn't have criticized him had the minority in question been black students or women. And of course, he is right. However, he doesn't stop there. In brilliant rhetorical style he advances from a defensive position into a high-flung moral argument, invoking Tocqueville's "tyranny of the majority" to defend his representation of that poor, tyrannized campus minority, final club members. Mr. Cooper will not, he says, "yield to popular passions on issues of prejudice or discrimination" against final club members...
...conduct of classroom discussion. This implies that deans and other members of Faculty are not empowered to take actions that quality or abridge the freedom of faculty members to teach their courses. The classroom is also a place for open discussion and reasoned debate of views, opinions and arguments, including those that are controversial. As participants in the classroom, our students are entitled to question views with which they disagree, and to express concerns about either the argument or the mode of presentation of the instructor...
...MASLIN'S argument isn't scintillating and she doesn't come to any valid conclusions. Second movies are often bad. So what? Maslin is not our most perspicacious movie critic (she rhapsodized over John Hughes' last teen flick, Some Kind of Wonderful). But writing for The Newspaper has certain responsibilities. One of those is not to make potentially racist suggestions, like the one that Black directors should limit themselves to making movies about sex. She insinuates that Lee should go back to where he came from--back to low budget, back to struggling...