Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arguments against registration were clear when Carter proposed the plan three months ago--it is militarily unnecessary and politically unproductive, perhaps even provocative. The motives behind it are political; and, in time of peace, it is needlessly coercive. But a new element has been added to the equation in the last few months--young people, high school and college students and others who will be affected by the plan, have rallied large-scale opposition to the registration...
Kilbourne said advertisements "reflect the dominant element in society (men) making them the norm. When women are depicted in advertisements, she said, they seem to be pathologically concerned with beauty...
Reagor said a crucial element in the Forum's success is the "centeredness and psychologial support; which the Forum in its present form provides
McCue's main worry is the trail of tuition dollars that will drift out of his grasp as the CRP students troop across campus. Allison, on the other hand, has so many administrative knots to untangle that he sees the millions needed for expansion as only one element of "a classic list of problems." First, he and his faculty must decide how to integrate CRP into the Public Policy program while reassuring students such as Scott Muldavin who say, "CRP people are concerned that they will be delegated to second banana over at the Kennedy School." Echoing McCue, Allison says...
Lumping together people who are alike is one level of racism, but there is a stronger, more pervasive element that all students should recognize. The University uses the ploy of setting priorities to justify "color-blindness"--a theory which works only if the society as a whole is color-blind. The University's decision to cut funding gradually for minority recruitment and its apathy in previous years in the search for tenured professors for the Afro-American Studies Department are a few indicators of how the color-blindness works...