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Stewart's warning seemed to have influenced the Committee members. Bowersock said yesterday that the CRR tried to disregard the political implications of its decision But the omnipotent nature of a disciplinary body forces it to deal with the political problems of the academic community...
...integration, he dramatically came out in favor of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and three years later voted for the open housing law. Brash and at times arrogant, Boggs had a great talent for booming oratory. He thoroughly enjoyed the clubby conviviality of the Congress, but had a high disregard for the tedium of slow-moving House hearings and meetings. He much preferred more sociable activities. His annual May party at his handsome house on the outskirts of Washington was a celebrated social event, with the guest list running...
...solid win over Dartmouth would also enhance the Crimson's chances of overtaking Bridgeport and Brown in the weekly New England soccer ratings, since the pollsters lead to disregard wins over team like Council that are not in New England. The people Knights, for example, lost to Hartwick last week, but retained first place despite the fast that Hartwick best Cornell earlier in the season, 4-2, and Harvard beat Cornell...
...their stubborn disregard of what sculpture "ought" to look like in the 1970s, De Kooning's bronzes stand in an interesting relationship to his paintings - as, indeed, the sculpture of major painters often does. Henri Matisse's casts, for instance, served as a receptacle for those instincts toward solid, feelable shape which he could not (with out violating the development of his work as a painter) get into his canvases. De Kooning imagery has long tended toward the monstrous. But the images existed in a fictional space, descended from Cubism, flattened and modulated. One may guess that...
...this context, it is far more significant that McGovern has gone against the advice of his Chicago operatives both black and white, including Jesse Jackson, and has endorsed the reelection of Cook Country DA Edward Hanrahan or that he is about to similarly disregard the pleas of many of his workers and supporters in Boston and endorse Louise Day Hicks, than it is that he is failing to produce the money promised...