Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faculty members and administrators repeatedly emphasize Bok's style when asked to sum up his first five years--conciliation, consensus, open-mindedness. This is partly the legacy of the '60s; according to one senior Faculty member, Bok is "the classic example of a man chosen to make up for his predecessors. If Bok retired today, the professor adds, Bok "would be remembered as the president who brought back the lawn to the Yard." While some are reluctant to juxtapose Pusey and Bok and instead insist on emphasizing their similarities, others quite bluntly concede their differences. Ackerman says the Pusey administration...
...Coming of Christ would occur. We were also told that the person who had brought these new truths to the world was Sun Myung Moon, a Korean. When I wanted to leave, I was told that Satan would try to pull me away from God because I had been chosen to build the kingdom of heaven. I felt that someone had placed a psychological bomb on my head, and if I left it would explode...
...evening stems from two separate strands of emotion. On the one hand, these monologues are portraits in embittered pain, the basic proposition being, "He done her wrong." On the other hand, they demonstrate the concentric power of love in a woman's life. If Playwright Shange had chosen an epigraph for her play, the one most suited to it is the one that in her militantly feminist way she would not have chosen: By ron's "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; 'tis woman's whole existence...
...most persuasive argument with the leaders would be fresh primary victories. This week 56 delegates will be chosen in Montana, Rhode Island and South Dakota. But Carter is concentrating on the vastly more important "Super Bowl" next week, when 540 Democratic delegates will be elected in California, New Jersey and Ohio. He is expected to lose California to Brown but still pick up many of the state's delegates. In Ohio, he maintained his lead, which he was trying to widen by aggressive campaigning. But in New Jersey, his lead became more fragile when his opponents-a slate...
...left too swiftly, there would be no returning, but in no sense is he acting as a brake on change in Spanish life. On the contrary, he evinces a certain impatience with the immobility of the old guard. Under the present constitution, he has more power than he has chosen to exercise. In the name of preserving a modern monarchy during the turbulent months ahead, he is bound to exercise more...