Word: classes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moorestown Friends School in New Jersey, the 5-ft., 5-in., 115-pounder played field hockey, basketball and tennis but had "only once kicked around a soccer ball in gym class...
...know of any rule governing that," Martha P. Leape, Allston Burr senior tutor at Winthrop House, says, adding she does not know whether cohabitation has ever been officially raised as an issue. Considering that University Health Services reports it has dispensed contraceptives to 84 per cent of the senior class women, the Harvard administration is hardly cracking down...
...rationale for such rules is discipline. "Since the appointment represents a full four-year scholarship and attracts everyone from the poor to the well-to-do--the first thing we try to do is level all that out and make the class into a mini-democracy," Monteverde says. "We also teach them to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. That's one of the hallmarks of military theory...
...That there Baker's a real high-class boy. I just wish he was a Democrat," Tarbue Lewis, a district manager for the Democratic state party headquarters in Nashville said. The Democrats have good reason for wanting Baker on their side. The last senate election saw him defeat the first female contender by more than 200,000 votes...
More importantly, Podhoretz' notion of the power of the ideas of intellectuals is illusory. As editor of Commentary, he believes the ideas will determine the political actions of his country by themselves. But ideas only truly take hold in a society if they represent a class or interest. We are not mobilized by ideas alone. The competition between intellectual magazines has little effect on general public opinion. Podhoretz' analysis underplays the spontaneity of political actions. If, as he submits, we act only when gripped by ideas, how can he explain the riots by blacks in Watts in the summer...