Word: clear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mutual benefit of this arrangement is clear. Says James H. Rademacher, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers: "I could buy every ingredient in Nixon's package if Congress retained its control. I look at that proposed board of directors, and I see money signs in their eyeballs. These guys would be interested in only one thing-a self-supporting operation, and public service would be sacrificed every time...
...election could cause ripples far beyond Los Angeles. Other cities share the tensions and fears that Yorty capitalized on. Mayoral elections this year and next in New York, Cleveland, Newark, Detroit and Atlanta could turn on substantially the same emotions. With Sam Yorty's example so clear before them, other candidates may well be tempted to exploit the racial issue with all the fervor of a Sam Yorty...
...pressure might build to turn Harvard into a merit-based institution. That would be the sort of place, as Dean Bender pointed out, which the two Roosevelts would hardly have been "admitted to or would have wanted to enter. . . . " This last, of course, is crucial. Bender makes it quite clear that -- financial arguments aside -- Harvard perceives as its purpose the education of the real leaders of tomorrow. And with firm sociological insight, it recognizes that potential leaders are most likely to be, by the process of "inheritance and nurture," the children of those presently ruling (or leading, depending on your...
...universities, some might say. Since, in the real world, efforts by militant moral vanguards to impose a new moral code on an unwilling population have generally led to massive cruelty, there are stronger grounds than mere academic self-interest for rejecting the use of coercion. Nor is it clear that the use of force against deans and professors accomplishes very much toward the reduction of oppressive violence in the larger society. Be that as it may, it is clear that at the level of principle, universities face an insoluble problem: in order to function with even a minimum of critical...
...letters called Steinberg "stimulating, clear, and penetrating--excellent by all Harvard standards." Robert D. Manz '70, who together with Udayan Gupta '71 organized the letter writing, cited Steinberg for his efforts to establish personal rapport with his students. "He made an effort to get to know all his students by their first names, for example," Manz said...