Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...studying, early-morning jobs, odd-houred athletic workouts and rehearsals characterize student life at Harvard/Radcliffe. For a woman to limit her participation because of the threat of rape or assault is to restrict her education. This is why the University must become involved. We will march on Saturday to assert each student's right to equal access to education and the university's responsibility to guarantee that right...
Although Heymann sees mainly the negative influences of the Lowell family on each of these poets, and their negative influence on each other, American Aristocracy does succeed as a comparative work. Heymann shows that power can hardly cushion a poet attempting to assert the validity of his or her expression, that money cannot buy literary respect, and that the ability to pen lines that seize readers has little to do with heredity. Rhyme and gene conditions do not necessarily mix. This message of the Lowell family leaps out of American Aristocracy. Again and again Heymann shows that distinguished writing flows...
...review of College governance was conducted in 1969 by a committee chaired by the late Merle Fainsod, the Pforzheimer University Professor who, ironically, was an expert on Soviet government. The Fainsod Committee suggested the establishment of several independent student-Faculty committees that left students without a central body to assert their interests...
...Boston" is Ed Logue's success story. But the "master plan" has its share of critics. Skeptics have assailed Logue for caring more about the cosmetics of Boston's physical design than about the needs of the city's poor. They assert that hundreds of Logue's development projects displaced hundreds of low-income families and disrupted the patterns of life in indigent communities...
Instead, they're calling tomorrow night's Muhammad Ali-Larry Holmes fight "The Last Hurrah", the culmination of two careers, as one fighter seeks to confirm his greatness, and the other tries to assert...