Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foundation accepts the fact that the library is not named for Charles W. Engelhard," Bernard Fennell, a member of the committee, said today...
...Civil Rights Act of 1964 was preceded by years of intensive study on the part of the Civil Rights Commission and various congressional committees. Each of these bodies had far greater resources than we do and faced a problem that was simpler, if only by virtue of the fact that federal legislation can override law and behavior but Harvard's writ does not run in South Africa. Detley F. Vagts Professor...
...term is not inappropriate, for the AEC's unique concept of American music has its origins in the artistic and cultural ferment of that era. Our popular culture has conditioned us for the epehmeral, but the emergence of the Art Ensemble as a tangible force in jazz is in fact as much a culmination as beginning. The AEC has worked together for over fifteen years, and during that time they have released over 20 albums, as well as an equal number of records under individual Art Ensemble members' names. Great Black Music may have flourished in obscurity, but it flourished...
...Life, speeches to the Faculty and students and, of course, the Harvard Gazette letters. Bok soon came to rely heavily on the letters, which gave him a chance to consult at his leisure with his chief strategist, General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, before committing himself to any positions. In fact, when asked at an open meeting about his policy on naming buildings after unsavory characters, he could only reply "Read my letter...
...meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, President Bok, purporting to add a new "strand of complexity" to the South Africa debate, read a letter from a prominent clerygman asserting that it is, in fact, virtually impossible for multinational firms to "withdraw" from South Africa. Presumably, we are to infer from this that the efforts of the international anti-apartheid movement are futile...