Word: claiming
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Besides raising questions about the sorts of prison programs New England states are willing to consider, Curran's report raises--once again--questions about the role universities and university professors play in society as a whole, and the freedom from responsibility and criticism they sometimes claim in the name of academic freedom. Like the work of government professors --Samuel P. Huntington, for instance--who theorized for the Army during the Indochina war, like the work of economists--some of those at Harvard's Development Advisory Service, for example--who advise dicatorships around the world on keeping their economies running, like...
Having decided that new construction was necessary, the Planning Office and its project architects claim to have given high priority to the preservation of the Yard in both the theoretical and physical design of Canaday Hall and the Pusey Library--with what appears from models and drawings to be varying degrees of consistency and success...
This site will now become an extension of the dormitory/court system which rings the southern and western sides of the Yard. The planners claim that extreme care has been taken in planning the new complex to match the scale of buildings and court with those of the existing freshman housing system. The problem here was to build a compatible building in a contemporary way. The brick will match exactly that of other Yard buildings; each of the three sections of the complex maintains the volumetric scale of the old dorms and has an eave line matched to that...
Ironically, Goldwyn's own pictures exercise surprisingly small claim upon memory; today they seem impossibly culture-bound. It is, however, a tribute to his blithe showmanship that he put them over (along with such later high-minded successes as The Best Years of Our Lives and Porgy and Bess) at the same time that he was fabricating his own broad comic reputation. Sam Gold wyn was his own greatest production, and one can only be saddened that, at 91, death last week finally included...
...weekend marked a low point in the continuing downward spiral of Cornell's basketball program. Second-year coach Tony Coma, whose claim to fame lay in coaching Earl "The Pearl" Monroe at Philadelphia's Bartram High School, announced his resignation for "personal reasons" Thursday, leaving Ithaca with a 7-38 won-lost record. Assistant Tom Allen stepped in as interim coach against the Crimson...