Word: egalitarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well established, centrally located and well funded, have a better chance for longevity than other social clubs; the Fly is likely to be representative of the future of organized social life at Harvard. It will be interesting to see whether the admission of women will make the club more egalitarian generally. Will the punch remain closed to most students, or will the club open up the punch, seek Harvard recognition and somehow try to integrate itself positively into the community? Frankly, the former option seems the more probable...
...making future sources of funding angry. I can walk in the door and say what I see in the room and walk out. That's what I do. I tell the truth. I believe very strongly in equality for women, and there's only one way to get it. Egalitarian feminism is the only way. That's the story. Egalitarian feminism says equality of opportunity and pay, period. That's it. People say women have special problems. Well, men have special problems. I'm very tall. That's a special problem." Here Crichton is arguing, as his book does, against...
...managing editor James R. Gaines, assistant managing editors Ann Morrison and Joelle Attinger, and business editor Sam Gwynne. Considering the rivalry, Morrison found the encounter "surprisingly informal and cordial." Attinger, tongue in cheek, credits the furniture arrangement. At the last minute, a rectangular table was replaced with the more egalitarian round...
Conservatives, on the other hand, subscribe to a world view a bit more complex than a gigantic conspiracy theory of world-wide patriarchy. While the environment does play its part, gender differences have a lot more to do with biology than patriarchy. Even after the most egalitarian of educations, for instance, women tend to be more nurturing than men and to need things like security and commitment in order to be happy. Men, on the other hand, tend to be more aggressive and authoritarian. They also tend to revel in insecurity and shun commitment. Despite the many obstacles encouraging women...
...firm. Except for the lowliest jobs, Wall Street, insurance and banking were also closed to those of Mediterranean or Slavic descent. A handful of legal and financial establishments were the preserves of high-caste German Jews, seldom hospitable to Polish and Russian Jews. The Postal Service was more ) egalitarian. The merit system allowed a Baratz to rise in rank, slowly. But my father felt that he lived in confinement -- a condition from which he would abet his only son's escape by providing cover...