Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to another legal challenge to the power plant, lawyers for the University yesterday filed a motion in Suffolk Superior Court to dismiss a complaint from the Selectmen of Brookline, who say Harvard should have obtained a "certificate of need" before beginning the project...
Proponents of the Constitution dismiss the idea of a student union as a romantic relic of '60s fervor. They are wrong. The student union approach is the most realistic and pragmatic way students can affect Harvard's cold, corporate decisions. It guarantees the most widespread mobilization of student opinions and pressure on the larger issues, and it focuses student influence in the Houses, dorms and departments, all of which the Constitution overlooks. The student union idea concentrates on the power realities at Harvard, not on sandboxes and soapboxes...
Perhaps the finest achievement is the depiction of the Germans. In most movies or TV shows that describe the Third Reich, the Nazis are heel-clicking automatons who run around yelling "Heil Hitler!" The effect of such theatrics is to rob genocide of its meaning; audiences can dismiss the Final Solution as the creation of a few madmen. In Holocaust, most Nazis are seemingly normal people who all too easily answer the call of a racist and fascist government. One of the show's principal characters is an intelligent lawyer and family man, Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), who rises...
...RECENT DECISION to dismiss the Wamponoag Indians' land suit is as logically faulty and politically self-serving as the conduct of the Mashpee trial itself. Judge Walter J. Skinner's decision accepts the jury ruling, handed down in January, that the Indians of Mashpee were not a tribe on certain key legal dates, but did constitute a tribe on other important dates...
...dance company will eventually have to be divided. It is the responsibility of the board to appoint the staff of the company, including the position of artistic director. A test of the board's effectiveness in staffing its organization occurred two weeks ago, when Mallardi asked the board to dismiss Elizabeth Lee '79, business manager, allegedly because she was "too efficient" and their personalities conflicted...