Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investments in companies that do business in South Africa. Schatz observes that discrimination and exploitation in South Africa, "though just as real, is not as real to the people protesting it." Gays at Harvard, on the other hand, are fighting for their own dignity and the right to express their sexual preferences without fear of recrimination, he says...
...proposal passed the Faculty 182-65, and student uproar, for the most part, died down. Now, as the end of the Core's second year, members of the University community accept the Core as a 'way of education.' Core administrators express optimism about their project, but, more significantly. Faculty and students seem increasingly enthusiastic about both teaching and studying in Harvard's educational experiment. At least to some extent, all three groups defend the Core, and say its critics --and the Crimson's 1978 predictions--were wrong...
Other University officials have suggested that the Board of Overseers did not wish to grant an honorary degree to a figure as political as Vance, who resigned last spring to express disagreement with the Carter administration's decision to send a rescue mission to Iran...
...problem, it seems, was that people just didn't take Radcliffe women seriously enough in the mid-Fifties. Oh sure, they attened lectures with the Harvard men, and it wasn't unusual for a young lady to demurely express a desire to go to a graduate school before settling down. But by and large, the "Cliffies" were fortunate even to be depicted as superficial socialites, rather than mindless "greasy grinds" who never left the Quad. Consider an entry in a widely read "Harvardians Partial Glossary": "R--is for Radcliffe, 60 per cent of whose members marry Harvard...
...fact, every single woman responding to a 25th Anniversary questionnaire has married, but a few raised a family. Many have established a career which they plan to continue or even expand. They express a tremendous pride in fulfilling the domestic goals they set for themselves in 1956 while adding other achievements never conceived of a quarter century ago. However, an uneasiness exists over opportunities never considered and ambitions long stifled...