Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pragmatic bent. We can no longer impose our own solutions; yet our action or inaction will influence events, often decisively. We cannot banish power from international affairs, but we can use our vast power wisely and firmly to deter aggression and encourage restraint and negotiation. We can help construct a wider community of interest among all nations. We must continue to stand for freedom in the world...
...narrowly won his seat in 1958 and in 1970 he defeated then-Representative Richard Roudebush by only 4283 votes. In both cases, the victories were unexpected. Hartke's bag of surprises may have run out this year, however. In 18 years as a Senator he has failed to construct a solid base of support, and this severely hampers his ability to withstand the strong challenge of Republican candidate Richard G. Lugar, former mayor of Indianapolis...
Hubbard wants a bunch of women to go off to a closet to construct a reality. If we assume Hubbard's sexist bias that they would construct a different reality than a mixed group, then they would necessarily also come up with a lot of ideas that a mixed group could have shot down in a jiffy! What a way to blow time and energy! And what's preventing a woman from proposing ideas in a mixed group anyway...
...historical fact that the present construct of reality was assembled at a time (right up till now) when women were excluded automatically and without question from the church, the state, and the universities. This is one reason why women's contributions play little part in the reality that is presented to us. "I would venture to guess," writes Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own, "that Anon, who wrote to many poems without signing them, was often a woman...
What has all this to do with us at Harvard? Everything. Of late, women have been invited to enter a world that has been constructed by men for men's use, delectation, and betterment. The question is, do women merely want to participate in this world that we had no share in making. Don't we need to gain the space to look around and decide what things look like to us? Since reality is primarily a male construct, the female student is put in a peculiar position. She can either ignore the potential difference between the prevailing view...