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...laudable to try to dispel inaccurate stereotypes about the Houses, and it would be good to make students happier about their House assignments. But free choice for students is also a positive good, and so is a degree of diversity among the Houses. Because the present system offers choice and maintains diversity, the Task Force's recommendation for a "no-choice" system should not be adopted. It is equally important, however, that the Faculty continue to work on improving the Quad Houses and constructing the Observatory Hill athletic complex, in an effort to make the Quad a more attractive alternative...
...greatest inventions were produced in times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gun powder, printing." To that list of dark times must be added the 1940s; to the list of new devices, atomic weapons. A World Destroyed does much to explain the invention - and far more to dispel the ignorance...
...being able to meet the fall tuition bills and finding homes that can be afforded. Neither Gallup nor Harris found that the President's recent European journey helped him a bit in their measurements, and that cast doubt on whether the expected agreement in the Middle East would dispel the political and economic shadows. There is almost nothing, except a grave national military peril, that takes such a toll of Presidents as economics...
...facts really seem too bad to be true. Nevertheless, a title at the beginning of The Other Side of the Mountain is there to dispel any doubts: "This is a true story...
...cans differing only in color and the flavor printed on their labels, silk-screened the same photo of Marilyn Monroe or Liz Taylor over and over. One could find these passive, no-comment images either dumb or threatening, according to taste; and despite Warhol's own efforts to dispel it, a belief grew that somewhere behind his dark glasses a social critic was lurking. This fitted the mood of the period neatly...