Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really cares who wins this one, except for those of us fortunate enough to call Rhode Island our home. There's quite a cross-state rivalry between the Bruins and the Rams. Today, second-year coach Len Jardine will try to even his record against URI, but sadly, he will fall short...
...detached from life, while Solzhenitsyn is combative, determined." In a time of unprecedented dissent in Russia, Solzhenitsyn stands at the moral center of the movement to cleanse Russia of the spirit of Stalinism. His role is symbolic, since he himself is not an activist but a loner, aloof except where his own works are involved. But he understands as well as any of Russia's great writer-dissenters of the past what he is about. He could be speaking of himself: "One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, raise the official hierarchy above the throne...
...mandatory yearly publication of party financial statements and a ban on conflicts of interest for members of Parliament. Political parties would be made more democratic by a requirement that their leaders be elected in open conventions rather than chosen secretly. The constitution goes into effect as soon as approved-except for guarantees of such individual rights as free speech and free assembly. The government can maintain martial law as long as it likes...
...Miss Alexandria. Certainly the author would never do so. He observes that the virtues of such women, products of pre-tax wealth and protracted social training, are unlikely to survive the times. Fondly, he seeks to preserve their manners and their memory. If Miss Alexandria seems not entirely real except to his eye, what matter? Affection, especially in much of modern literature, is a rare commodity. Like the loyalty of a husband to an unattractive wife, Richter's affection for this Main Street Auntie Mame ends up being somewhat touching...
House courses are a major step toward decentralized instruction, and except for the system of residential tutors, Harvard has long resisted that concept. Last year both faculty and student committees at Yale recommended that the colleges (the Yale equivalent of Harvard houses) take the lead in developing new curriculum. But Yale has nothing like the Gen Ed program, and some argue that part of the function of a college-wide Gen Ed program is to develop new courses on a college-wide basis. They argue that house courses may move Harvard toward the English college system in which appointments...