Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adds that "there was a feeling that educational policy was being made in the boudoir." All of this has, of course, had the predictable and unfortunate result of clouding what Gail Parker actually proposes, and it will continue to make it easy for torchbearers of the status quo to dismiss her ideas on the future of higher education as the ravings of "a female Mencken...
Departments normally promote or dismiss junior faculty in the privacy of their offices, but a series of History Department decisions made public this week brought questions about the process, and even some grievances over it, to light...
...students have demonstrated that they do not care about that. For if faculty shy away from students in the lecture hall, they shut them out of the committee room. Many, although by no means all, faculty and administrators extend their intellectual contempt for students to a political contempt. They dismiss the undergraduate's calls for change as naive or hypocritical. Students do not think of the institution but themselves, the argument runs, and it is the administrator's responsibility to look out for Harvard. These administrators blanch if you suggest that a student's perspective is essential because...
...movies, these effects are constantly shown through funny photography, strange sound effects and bizarre syntax--they are easy to recognize, easy to label "insane," and hence easy to ignore and dismiss. One wonders why it is that schizophrenics are so often shown on split screens, or with funny echo-chambered voices whispering on the soundtrack. And what does this have to do with the genuine condition, which is abnormal precisely because it is not occurring in the realm of special effects...
...becomes evident why the Iranians had to transgress diplomatic principles in order to proclaim their sovereign rights. They could have initiated procedures for a hearing, but the prospect of unravelling a long, legal red tape simply did not correspond to their fervent need to administer justice. And to dismiss the Iranians' protests as fanatical is to grossly distort the historical conditions which have precipitated them...