Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hubris (a word which threatens to repeat the rise of "chairman") did not cause their undoing. Like the antagonist in a twentieth-century novel by Kafka or Camus, their enemy is faceless, irrational and overpowering. The Vietnamese are the real-life counterparts of Joseph K. and Meursault; they attain nobility by resisting oppression...
...qualified applicants, and that selection based on merit alone would result in a larger proportion of female fellows. In universities in general. I said that while I realized the issue was an extremely difficult one and while I have known of cases where highly qualified women were able to attain positions they clearly deserved only because of the existence of some quota. I myself would prefer to work for a situation where hiring is done openly on the basis of merit without the establishment of artificial numerical pressures. I expressed confidence that "tokenism" would be avoided in the case...
...STRIVES for two basic goals: to work for social change in local communities and to put Harvard undergraduate in touch with people and problems outside the University. Each PBH committee tries to attain these goals in its own way, from working with teenagers on probation to helping poor people renovate their apartments. In order to fulfill the two aims of serving the tangible needs of PBH volunteers, the 14 diverse committees have to face, as a unified organization, two major problems: the intergration of volunteer experience with academic education and raising funds...
...cannot avoid the concrete realities surrounding him in city streets and hospital corridors. Bends of bearded youths and have krishna dancers with the faces of cheerleaders allow him to toy with the idea of a Second Coming. The end won't come that easily, though, and his struggle to attain grace becomes merely a grasping at identity, an identity that wavers between Europe and America, father, murderer, surgeon and witch doctor...
...been assured, they will some day be given the right to become Mormon priests. Although there is no sign that the day is imminent, Harold Lee, the "revelator," could theoretically receive the word from God any time. Meanwhile, he advises blacks to become Mormons anyway. Even if they cannot attain the highest privileges, he says, they will "get more by baptism into the true church than they would otherwise...