Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eugene Rivers, an undergraduate on leave from the College, plans to publish his allegations of discrimination at Harvard in an upcomming book, "How Harvard Rules." The account maintains that Epps' race cost him a fair shot at the College's top deanship and that similar institutional prejudice prevented Senior Admissions Officer David L. Evans from serious consideration as Director of Admissions when that job opened up last summer. Rivers claims that despite 16 years as dean of students, Epps was not even interviewed for the job by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence. The lack of Blacks...
Wandering amid Italian sausage stands, Africanart displays and Japanese-made American flags,fair-goers noted the distinctly Cambridgediversity. Said one woman leaving the Common: "Itcould only happen here...
...acquired his scorn for educational conventions, not to mention conventional educators. Then, as now, he found no use for grades: "What do they measure? The ability of some children to bone up for examinations." Given the power, he would abolish all marks in favor of general ratings (honors, pass, fair) arrived at by essay questions and oral examinations...
Gephardt's early attack on Hart's free-trade views reflects a changed political environment, prompted by growing fears over the Japanese economic threat. This time around, presidential candidates may feel compelled to prove their moxie on trade. "It is clear that people do feel there is not a fair, level playing field and that they want something done about it," says Pollster Paul Maslin, who has ties to the Hart campaign. The political problem for all candidates is to develop remedies that are simple enough to be understandable, tough enough to be credible, yet permissive enough to satisfy...
...role he is enacting, Speech Scholar Henry Higgins, became virtually the personal property of Rex Harrison in the musical adaptation, My Fair Lady. Fans seeking a reprise of that winsome performance here will find far more of the imperious exterior with far less of the twinkly sugar daddy beneath. In O'Toole's view, the play is only outwardly about the civilizing of the street- corner flower seller Eliza Doolittle, who learns from " 'iggins" the speech and manner of a duchess. Underneath, he says, the play is about taming Higgins, a knowing product of the world of decorum and privilege...