Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite devices of intellectual journals is to collect a number of articles or essays on the same topic from a group of well known scholars, and bind them all together with a general introduction. The result is called a "symposium." and usually consists of 20 or so vague essays all saying the same thing about one general topic. The viewpoint expressed in the articles will be the accepted moderate-liberal position, with perhaps one ?? and one conservative thrown in for balance D?? the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is often guilty of this sort of thing...
...wondered how much energy you could spend fighting authority when you could spend that same energy doing what you should be doing." Anita Caspary hopes to preserve the best of both worlds in the new community. "We'd like to be free of these legalities which bind us to this or that religious life, but at the same time we want the richness of tradition of Immaculate Heart that the older people embody...
Hence, throughout the past decade, the legislature has found itself in a bind. On the one hand, most of the people of the Commonwealth don't really want a stadium, at least don't want to pay the price for one; on the other hand, a smaller but more vocal band of Patriots owners and fans periodically besieges the State House, demanding a stadium to keep the team in Boston. To anyone well enough versed in Massachusetts politics to get elected to the legislature in the first place, the solution is obvious: put the heat elsewhere, preferably on Harvard...
...willy-nilly, eleven students to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, five to the Committee on Undergraduate Education, seven to the Committee on Students and Community Relations. and perhaps four to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. What the backers of the Supercouncil have in mind is to bind these students together into one group. It's not a bad idea...