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...laugh at the irony of your headline "The Joy of Art." The American public already has an image of the artist as an easygoing image maker working a few hours a week in between parties, and I doubt that your story will help to dispel the falsehood...
Davis has given the Med School a stigma that may be difficult to dispel. The remarks of Phillip R. Pittman, chairman of the Med School's Third World Caucus, that "many students have a feeling of selling out if they apply to Harvard Medical School" reveals the great difficulty Harvard Med may have in getting qualified minorities to apply in the future...
...flew five senior officials to New York to unveil, with maximum publicity, a 26-page, 70-item "Voluntary Disclosure Code," under which the bank proposes to make available information that goes far beyond what banks are compelled by law to reveal. The disclosures, say bank officials, should help to dispel public suspicion of business and keep BankAmerica's executives toeing the mark. Intones a preamble to the code: "What better inhibitor to misconduct or ineptness than the certain knowledge that one's actions will become known...
Although Steven Schorr's article on creative writing at Harvard was better than I expected it to be, his subacidity led to several impressions which I would like to briefly but fully dispel...
...Curry will not be rejoining the team this year or ever again, for that matter. If that be the case, then let's have some official confirmation. At least, some acknowledgment that it might happen. Curry's athletic status should be clearly defined in such a manner as to dispel the numerous rumors floating around the school. Though the storm will eventually blow over, that does not vindicate the current silence...