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...image of the Law School as an elite community "is just a ripoff," said Kennedy, who advocated redistributing law students among the six law schools of the Boston area to dispel the Law School's exclusive image...
...heels new sweeps of classification and restriction. We share those fears, and a Defense Department spokesman's prediction that the report will be used to lobby for a decrease in the number of Soviet scientists allowed to come here and for more pre-publication review did little to dispel them...
CAST has cleverly designed this exhibit to expand on or dispel much of the common knowledge and stereotypes assigned to the Chinese country and people. Acupuncture is explained and portrayed in the medical context in which it originated, rather than in the witch-doctor reputation it has outside China. A display featuring the artistry and dress of the Miso tribe, a minority group living in southwest China, reveals to visitors that contrary to popular belief, the Chinese are not one uniform race...
...authority than any other. It is a response to a culture of reproduction. Its posture is a melange of acquiescence and mild pessimism: acquiescence in the thick smog of images now dumped on the eye by "high" and "low" culture alike, pessimism about painting's ability to pierce or dispel it with authentically rooted meanings...
...lagged behind technologically," he says, adding he has discovered only some pieces of the answer. Huang says he has learned that "cultural factors, and the emphasis on a communal lifestyle, are inherently hostile elements to good organization." China's new open-mindedness toward the West, he adds, hopefully will dispel its "threatening self-assumed superiority and self-indulgent nostalgia...