Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goes the wisdom of Kirkland House Master Donald K. Pfister, and perhaps some of his colleagues, who express concern that certain houses are becoming too "jocky," and therefore lack diversity. And last week the chairman of the athletic department, Jack Reardon, tried to encourage freshmen athletes to be more open-minded in their house selection...
BOTH The Salient and The Perspective--as far apart ideologically as you can get at Harvard--have defended Thernstrom in the name of academic freedom. Fruitful debate in the academic community depends on the right to express controversial theories. Nobody disagrees with this. What there is contention over--especially in the Thernstrom case--is how to define the limits of this freedom...
...would lose. He did not. Tomba is a big, curly-haired, laughing fellow, winner of seven World Cup races already this season, who seems too tall and bulky to be the world's best gate skier. But he is unusually agile and strong, and -- this is hard to express adequately -- confident. Earlier, when he caught an edge and bomba'd out of the super-G, this amazing man, unworried, said, "My resurrection is near...
...gimmick has shaken up the airlines so much as the new triple-mileage bonuses. Delta started this turbulence last November, when it announced that anyone charging a ticket for one of its flights with an American Express card this year would receive credits worth three times the mileage. Within a few months, nearly all the major carriers had matched or surpassed Delta's deal, some offering the triple mileage whether or not passengers used American Express...
Elsewhere, the Palestinian lawyer and author Raj'a Shehade refines this sullen fatalism as sumud, a word he uses to express his determination to endure and outwait Israel: "Of the two ways open to me as a Palestinian -- to surrender to the occupation and collaborate with it, or to take up arms against it, two possibilities which mean, to my mind, losing one's humanity -- I choose the third way. To remain here. To see how my home becomes my prison, which I do not want to leave, because the jailer will then not allow me to return...