Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blake returned the favor and helped Barnaby add two more titles to a list which, after 44 years of continual expansion, can be added to but once more, at the six-man team championships this weekend at Williams College...
Take the students, for example. They are divided, Aldrich writes, between "the careerists and the party of fairness." We all know the careerists. The fairists are that group of students who favor lotteries as a means of admitting students to freshman seminars and oppose master's choice. The force which motivates the party, says Aldrich, is a "passive, dull, and slightly sullen drive to do away with 'distinctiveness.'" In case you are still wondering just who Aldrich is referring to, he tells you how to spot them: "The most obvious emblem of the party is a uniform seen practically everywhere...
...their Houses than there are at Harvard, to maintain an "unfair" distinctiveness in the Quad Houses. And even if Aldrich's party of fairness existed, its members would not necessarily find themselves opposed to the careerists. There is no reason a pre-med would be any more likely to favor master's choice than a non-careerist VES major; conversely, a fairist could as easily be an egalitarian pre-law student as some one with no plans past tomorrow...
Secretary Kissinger gives the cold shoulder to any Italian politicians favoring the "historic compromise," that is, Communist participation in the government. One such politician, Francesco DeMartino, the highly-respected leader of the Socialist Party and until now a member of the pro-Western left, was originally scheduled to visit Washington with a group of Italian parliamentarians. However, when it was discovered that DeMartino intended to express his opinion to Secretary Kissinger in favor of PC cooperation in the government, he was politely told by CIA agents that his presence in the U.S. was unnecessary. The Secretary was not going...
Both operate on the same premise as the earlier Commentary critiques: they would favor reverting to the affirmative action of the 60's, when firms were asked to expand pools but no minorities or women would receive advantages in hiring. But rather than base their arguments on merit values or on the bootstrap philosophy, these accounts assert that things are much better for black people than government bureaucracies care to imagine. For Glazer, the struggle is over, the redneck racists are gone; the cry of institutional racism becomes the refuge and protector of the incompetent woman or minority...