Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With his latest book, USSR In Crisis. Marshall Goldman does not pretend to provide startling revelations that finally answer all the questions about the Soviet Union. The author, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, is too aware of the ambiguities of Soviet life too conscious of the blinders any Westerner is forced to wear when looking at the USSR, to go out on a limb. Indeed, he performs an adept juggling act, usually balancing all sides to a problem and never maintaing that his findings are the truth. But his lucid study convincingly details the major dilemmas that...
...Emma backward, starting with a wistful coda, then proceeding through breakup, Robert's discovery of what the couple is up to, the rental of a love nest, the first illicit meeting, the initial acknowledgment of mutual attraction, with which the film ends. There is something smug and self-conscious about this conceit, but it is also unbalancing. Since the triangle cliché is so familiar, the only possible way to impart suspense is by focusing on what happened first...
...seems a new pretext for the Administration to assert its predetermined stance on civil rights policies. Even the Boston case, which presents the legitimate constitutional question of whether seniority plans are exempt from remedial affirmative action, is by no means a glaring case of unwarranted reverse discrimination. All race-conscious hiring plans seem destined to create some backlash for white workers, and courts have repeatedly asserted that it is not unreasonable to ask whites to forego advantage they enjoy because of prior discrimination...
...group, Harvard students are cautious, time-conscious and practical because from what we read and are told by parents and other elders, these are the qualities needed to succeed in high-powered pursuits during times of economic recession. To win in a crowded fast lane, you need solid credentials, which for all but the truly gifted intellects require a great deal of enervating preparation...
Another option open to price-conscious students is to search for used books. Several stores carry second-hand texts, including the Coop itself, which buys books being used in the current semester from students at 50 percent of the original price. Harvard Book Store sells used editions at a 25 percent discount and the Starr Book Shop on Bow St. sells books at 40 to 60 percent off. The selection is limited in all three cases, but Harvard Book Store offers a good supply of Penguin Books, and the Starr carries a wide selection of "classic scholarly books...