Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many Crimson coaches, the conflict between the desire to win and the need to conform to Harvard admissions standards is often uneasy. Although coaches respect the academic goals of the office of admissions, many express frustration that arises not from stringent standards, but from other constraints. Joe Restic, Crimson football coach, says the biggest problem he faces is the relative unattractivenesss of Harvard's financial aid package...
...stated that France, Germany and Italy did not express much solidarity with Carter's sanctions against the Soviets. I believe Western Europe should be independent of superpower rivalry and try-by any means-to preserve world peace, even if some American people, misunderstanding our subtle diplomacy, call it cowardly abdication...
...soldiers into Afghanistan, Soviet authorities had emphasized the close historical ties between the peoples of Soviet Central Asia, particularly Uzbekistan, and of Afghanistan. "The Uzbeks and Afghans-we're one people," said Khelyam Khudaiberdiyev, an official of the state radio and television in Tashkent. He went on to express a feeling of almost familial responsibility toward his backward cousins to the south: "We have a saying that our dogs live better than the Afghans lived under the old regime there" (referring to the monarchy and Daoud government overthrown...
...overwritten characterization? Not really, though Golding descends to verbose depths more than once, at one point calling his Hell the "inchoate unorchestra of the lightless spaces." He gets away with such a weird combination of words and images only because it parallels the confusion and discomfort that his characters express in their infernal discoveries...
...Cabinet of Phillips Brooks House Association, are writing to express our dismay and disapproval of Harvard's decision to offer Professor Arnold Harberger the post of director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). Harberger's ties with the repressive milatary regimes of Latin America are well-known, especially his ties with Chile. In addition to being a consultant to the illegal government of General Pinochet, Harberger's students, the "Chicago boys," hold key positions in that government. It is time for economists like Harberger to realize that economics cannot be looked at in a vaccum, and that what...