Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phrases piling up without division, is as unsightly as a sink piled high with dirty dishes.) Small wonder, then, that punctuation was one of the first proprieties of the Victorian age, the age of the corset, that the modernists threw off: the sexual revolution might be said to have begun when Joyce's Molly Bloom spilled out all her private thoughts in 36 pages of unbridled, almost unperioded and officially censored prose; and another rebellion was surely marked when E.E. Cummings first felt free to commit "God" to the lower case...
...definition of 'new activism' has blurred,as students' more conciliatory tactics merge intocooperation with University officials. The trendis not new; it may have begun with the 1969occupation of University Hall, which gave rise tostudent-faculty committees with an open channel toCollege administrators. But Jewett says thetendency toward persuasion reaches ever greatersophistication...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences, must cope with salaries too small to accommodate Cambridge's high cost of living, jobs that rarely lead to tenure and heavy teaching loads. Junior faculty members say their transient lives often leave them feeling detached from the Harvard community. The administration has begun to show concern for its junior professors, as Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence this week issued his second report on the subject...
...that women have begun to reach the upper ranks of Harvard's administration, Horner says, their presence has contributed to what she calls a changing perception of women in the University...
...aspiriation to professions usually comes before the aspiration to pure scholarship," says Vendler of the pattern to create a minority middle class. But now, Blacks and Hispanics have begun to establish a middle class and can afford to venture into teaching, she says. "I would think there is a large enough Black middle class that their children can be scholars...