Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if the sole criterion for judging Saturday night's action were its impact on the free exchange of ideas, the failure to raise issues in a coherent way would still be the real criticism to be leveled at the demonstration. By forcing people to confront something important, the demonstration could have helped to break through the fabric of seeming acquiescence and apathy that enshrouds not just race-related questions here, but also most of the other issues regular discussion of which would signal the existence of truly free debate. For all its professed devotion to liberal ideals of full...
...from participation. The president has said as much. Never let it be said that the administration is doctrinaire in its outlook. When the faculty of the Afro-American Studies Department repeatedly insists that appointments in the department should be in sympathy with the work of the department, this criterion has been universally rejected by every administratively constituted body that has come into contact with the department, including the Faculty search committee, which Dean Rosovsky recently disbanded. Has Bok recently acquired enlightenment or is this simply an old double standard...
There is obviously only one criterion for entertainments of this kind, namely that an adult can live with them on the same regular basis as the kids do. The prairie programs offer young viewers an irresistible opportunity to make secret, invidious comparisons between the fantasy figures on the television screen and those sulky representatives of the reality principle, their parents. The old folks, in turn, must defend themselves against the saintly phantoms of a lifestyle that never was while counting the minutes to bedtime...
...revelations of the past week may serve to confirm what some graduate students feared to be the case about GSAS admissions: that financial aid was, in fact, the final criterion for their acceptances...
...imagine no fate more unpleasant than to be marooned on a desert island with (barring John Kenneth Galbraith) one of the pretentious hacks and quacks who voted for one another as intellectual elitists in the poll taken by Sociologist Charles Kadushin. What else might be expected when the criterion for determining intellect was publication in the New York Review of Bombast or the Prejudice Review...