Word: equalize
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...York and the national collegiate average) shows how Harvard's income distributions differs from the rest of the country. A number called the Gini Index shows how unequally the total goods of the nation are divded up among the total population. The most the Gini number can equal is 1. If the number is 1, then the person in question has all the goods in question (in this case, representation in Harvard's student body). For Harvard, the Gini Index is .84. For land-holding in fedual England, the value was .65. This means that Harvard students are a more...
Others have written with an equal bitterness about the War, about estrangement, about the uncomfortable timidity of poets in America (I'm thinking of the anthology of Poets on Vietnam, Hayden Carruth's "On a Certain Engagement South of Seoul," or Berryman's "Formal Elegy" on the death of President Kennedy). Yet Wilbur has referred to these events in passing, as if to recognize their presence without allowing them to oppress his spirit, knowing the limits of indignations...
...this way. Paine Hall began in resentment and anger. It could so easily end in tragedy. But it could also mark the beginning of a time when people will talk to each other more openly, more honestly, not as tokens in an ideological struggle, but as human beings equal to themselves in worth. It could mark the beginnings of a free and humanistic politics and an end to the politics of confrontation and ultimatum. For the politics of ultimatum, no matter which side plays them, are emotionally and intellectually as nourishing as spittle. No matter which side is taking reprisals...
...organizing demands" on ROTC and amnesty were proposed by Jeffrey C. Alexander '69, vice-president of the HUC and a participant in the sit-in at Paine Hall, and were approved by a large majority. Prior to the vote, several speakers argued that the group should demand only equal punishment for all, rather than total amnesty. One speaker called the demand for no punishment an implied threat to the Administration, adding, "If you're going to threaten the Administration, you've got to have something to threaten them with. We can't say that the Administration can't punish...
...majority of those at the meeting, however, appeared to feel that since the group would strongly oppose any punishment which the Administration handed down, a demand for equal punishment was implicitly a demand for no punishment...