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...survey's findings. She shouldn't have been. The so-called guides--selected on the basis of a brief application form--were let loose in September with only a pep talk from Kyriazi. Although the SHS charter empowers the board to "conduct ongoing evaluations of the program" and to dismiss guides who fail to "perform required duties," board members never checked up on the guides until January. "By the time we realized that we had done something wrong, it was too late," Mark J. Shlomchik '81, treasurer of SHS last year, admitted...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Help Wanted | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...SAID the adoption of energy conservation and low-technology solar power represent the way out of the United States' dependence on imported oil, most people would dismiss you as a "freak" from California or the Sierra Club. However, if you told that to the members of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School, they'd most likely slap you on the back and welcome you to the club...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: Sunshine at the B-School | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...dismiss the fact that Cuba played a crucial role in Nicaragua's war is not only foolish but an insult to our intelligence. Regardless of Somoza's dictatorial regime, such intervention should not have been permitted by the OAS. When this country's back is against the wall, and we are surrounded by Communists, where will we turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1979 | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...reach a point when you can't blame UFOs anymore, when the caveman comes out of the closet without Marx or Jesus, when the politically retrograde bare their fangs and call it a smile. Here's Lansing Lamont, who can dismiss the entire sixties as "a media-orchestrated protest revel," call the return of protest to college campuses "ugly," and homosexuality a "problem to be surmounted." Lamont yearns for the days when Harvard and the "elite universities" were one big Finals Club, enjoying "comfortable, if snobbish, intimacy" and "benign" parietal rules, all blond hair and blue eyes and a sure...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Foreign Correspondent | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...number of literary taste makers. W.H. Auden, who saw early versions before he died in 1973, said that liturgically speaking, the Episcopal Church "seems to have gone stark raving mad." Much of the new edition is "pedestrian, second-rate, banal," snaps Literary Critic Cleanth Brooks. Episcopal leaders generally dismiss such remarks as elitist fuming. The people in the pews, they insist, are grateful for the new version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle of the Prayer Books | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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