Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freedom--which has characterized so much of the political debate in Harvard's history--once again to the fore. The Weinberger incident was only one of several which helped to dramatize the fragility of a university's atmosphere of "free and uninhibited discussion" of issues. While the issues are distinct--ranging from expression in public forums on the one hand to restrictions on the publication of academic work on the other--they all highlight the frailty of free expression on campus...
This year the Faculty's Women's Studies Committee made several distinct efforts to promote a more comprehensive program for women's studies, including Harvard's offer of a tenure to a scholar who would be associated with an established department but specialize in women's scholarship...
...luxury. In the process there was a certain amount of cannibalization of real estate, and ladies who ran boarding houses for students were being done out of their livelihood. This did not sit very well with the city fathers. The relationship between "town" and "gown," always edgy, took a distinct turn for the worse. Some of the awe and respect with which the University had been viewed in earlier days by the rest of Cambridge had been eroded in the last decade or so, and Councillor Toomey, at a meeting of the City Council, even called for the sundering...
Mondale's malaise derives from a fact that hit home again last week: Democratic voters refuse to embrace him firmly and finally. He faces the distinct possibility that he may not amass a majority of committed delegates by the end of the primary season on June 5, thus setting off a messy preconvention scramble that could further divide his party. Hart's buoyant mood is understandable too. The Colorado Senator has won four of the last six primaries, including landslides last week in Nebraska and Oregon. The two outdoorsy, overwhelmingly white states were prime Hart territory...
...much of the social landscape. Few aspects of French life have remained untouched by the electoral upheaval that gave France its first leftist government in three decades. In areas as diverse as law and education, communications and fashion, business and dining, the France of 1984 bears Mitterrand's distinct imprint...