Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continued through this period to reject the idea of Harvard divesting from companies that do business in South Africa. Though Bok was and is clearly and firmly opposed to apartheid, he claimed it was unclear whether or not the presence of American companies in South Africa was a bad thing. Bok's comments in the spring of 1978 that seemed to defend the idea of American investment in South Africa were quoted in newspapers like the Johannesburg Star and the Rand Daily Mail as the official opinion of Harvard University. The student movement for divestiture had accomplished a great many...
...first step in this revolution of consciousness is for all of us to learn to deprecate the old bad ways. We have to overcome whatever residue of the adversarial and the estranged clings to our attitude toward students. Too many teachers continue throughout their careers to dread their students and thus their classes. This dread has something to do with the fear of not knowing "enough." Everyone--starting with the teacher--has to feel free to say, "I don't know, but I can find out." Joseph S. Nye, professor of Government, who appeared in one of the Harvard-Danforth...
...Harvard men's squash team won another national championship a sportsmanship award, placed three players on the All-America team, and five on the All-Ivy team. Not bad for a weekend's work...
...Harper's isn't that bad Really. It does have problems, most obviously the hamburger-helper layout, which features lots of blank space and confusing or pointless graphics. They also haven't figured out how many columns they want on a page, and the new typeface is hard on the eye. Their "Annotation" (applying the techniques of history to a confusing modern document), which featured a doctor commenting upon a hospital bill, was almost laughably silly And the greatest problem is that unless their succession of short articles; tables and charts are extraordinarily compelling, they tend to vanish from...
...sick. I'm dead. I've got a People magazine so fat With reminiscent slush and self-congrat That I could barely lift it off the stoop. (Not from my door--I stole it off the some dupe) It seems this month the rag is ten years old; Too bad. I hoped that they were soon to fold. Their editer says their style is really new; They feature People, not people like...