Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week writing competition in the fall, during which candidates write law review notes and perform tasks like checking citations, says outgoing president Adam W. Glass '78. "There's some self-selection--people drop out, and we vote on the people who are left," he says. "The process is as blind as possible, but in the second half of the comp when people are working around the office it's hard to be completely anonymous." Glass says that race and gender are considered a "valid topic for discussion" at these election meetings, but that the review has no formal affirmative action...
...embedded in each stage is the notion that Harvard must maintain its high academic standards with every appointment. Research and professional esteem thus come to play a decisive factor in the selection process--particularly, faculty say, at the stage where outside experts are requested to send to a department blind letters about candidates...
California Democrat Alan Cranston complained that Lefever "seems to have a blind eye to human rights violations by right-wing military dictatorships." Indeed, Lefever has been an apologist for governmental repression in South Africa, South Korea and Chile-governments he defends as merely "authoritarian"-on the unsure ground that these allies are relatively more free than fully "totalitarian" Communist societies. Lefever said he deplored the Carter Administration's tendency to chide certain U.S. allies publicly about their human rights violations. "I don't regard myself as a one-man Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval," he told the committee...
...being physically thirteen or fourteen years old . . . he has all the ego isolation and drive of a twenty-year-old." These sound like random thoughts, not the shaped statements of a narrator on top of his material. Tremont's treatment of his mother also provokes uneasiness. He seems blind to his bias against her, even though his own words reveal how eager he is to free his father by reining...
...exact concordances, between the infinite longings expressed in German romantic art and the sense of pantheistic immanence, God-over-the-Hudson, that ran through American nature painting in the mid-19th century. But since World War II, for obvious reasons, the links were broken and discarded-especially by those blind savants who fell in with the idea that Nazism could, by some train of coarse free association, be traced back to German transcendentalism. So this show, in all its variety and unfamiliarity, cannot help instructing its audience. Its range is wide (and brilliantly discussed in the catalogue by Art Historians...