Word: extoll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...backbone of society and the ultimate arbiters of change, but history is apt to judge them differently. For change conies from those who care, who propose and agitate, modified by those who care differently and oppose; the rest is inertia. The inert middle is not what Aristotle meant to extol...
...enrolling equal numbers of men and women at Harvard and Radcliffe. But every Spring students do return to the perennial question: should Harvard set 1:1 admissions as a goal or should students campaign for a "sex-blind" policy? No serious believer in equal admissions can continue to extol "non-discrimination" while avoiding concrete solutions like quotas or target figures...
Friends of the Earth, an environmental group, has filed complaints against three New York TV stations for refusing to counter automobile and gasoline advertising with ads that extol mass transit and show the evils of auto pollution. The environmentalists have argued, with support from a federal appeals court, that stations must run such commercials under the fairness doctrine. But most broadcasters are resisting on the grounds that such requirements are a threat to the autonomy of commercial broadcasting...
Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is lavish with both words and money. Last week he took five hours-quite a stretch for Arabs who love prolix oratory-to extol pan-Arabism. Arab states, he insisted, do not need "Communism, fascism, foreign capitalism or liberalism." Instead, they are capable of forming a united force that could easily become the third great world power. One step toward this goal, Gaddafi said, would be to overthrow King Hussein of Jordan and King Hassan of Morocco, just as he and fellow officers 21 years ago toppled Libya's King Idris. Radio Cairo...
...ferocity of the Cultural Revolution has disappeared from the tree-lined walkway leading to the red brick dormitories. Wall posters now extol the virtues of serving the people and studying the thoughts of Chairman Mao. "Heighten our vigilance and defend our motherland," says one. Only tattered remains of the big posters from the revolution hint at the turmoil that closed Futan University for nearly three years. Reopened in November 1970, it has been transformed...