Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extent we were moved to action, we were interested not in convincing or compromise, but rather only in the direct expression of our political beliefs. The passion for directness was a kind of style. We dressed in our politics, and we wanted all who met us to confront them. "Some people talk about the weather," my favorite poster at the time announced, and below silhouettes of Marx, Engels and Lenin, proudly proclaimed: "Not us." We therefore did little to create a convincing program, and we left to the liberal organizers of the mass demonstrations the tedious labor of welding alliances...
...energy, there remains one topic Verba did not confront special concentrations. According to Judith A. Kates, director of special programs, the number of special concentrators has not increased and there does not seem to be a change in the attitude of people who grant special concentrations. "It has always been felt that it is an important safety valve for rare students. But very few students fall into that category," she notes. However, some students have pushed for lightening the burden and allowing more Women's Studies concentrators. The drive has been going on for a long time...
Thirty years after Brown, the group did not have to confront the anathema of legislated discrimination. In its place, however, were issues that continue to concern--and sometimes divide--civil rights activists; affirmative action, charges of separatism and, most of all education...
...most serious shortcomings in Rosovsky's report are the issues he fails to confront altogether. Assessing the number of senior faculty who offer courses, for example, does not help determine the quality of that teaching. And nowhere, excepting his discussion of the Core, does Rosovsky address the issue of curriculum. Are professors teaching courses students want to take? These considerations would seem to have some bearing on the quality of education at Harvard...
Eugene O'Neill was, supremely, a vernacular poet who found his most haunting rhythms in the profoundly mixed emotions of his characters, his most memorably dissonant sonorities in the muddled motives with which they confront memory, fate and each other. A Moon for the Misbegotten, his last completed play, is structurally the simplest of the late great work. It is also perhaps the most anguished, because O'Neill was searching so hard for a ray of hope in the dawn that completes this long night's journey into...