Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ruggles would not be a menace to the community. People who would go to Ruggles to drink alcohol would be at the restaurant for dinner or lunch, not to get drunk. If the Defense Fund and others believe there are too many licenses in the Square, they should fight to remove licenses from owners of establishments who abuse the privelege...
Jobs as diverse as working in a top Manhattan law firm and helping the poor fight rent hikes are available to the future barristers...
...fields including feminist literary criticism, post-Freudian psychology, women's history and gender issues--will have to pick and choose from a handful of courses sprinkled throughout various departments. The 50 or more seniors this year in traditional departments writing theses with Women's Studies slants will have to fight it out for the few advisors knowledgeable enough to guide them. And most, if not all, students wanting to design a special Women's Studies concentration will be denied the opportunity--of 30 applicants so far, only one student, two years ago, won official sanction...
...student activists who set Harvard afire in the late sixties had very different attitudes about money and Harvard and protest tactics in general. The students who occupied University Hall on April 9, 1969 arrived with chains and padlocks and placards reading, "Fight Capitalists--Running Dogs." Inside, the students voted not to do any willful damage to the building and to refrain from smoking marijuana while inside. As many as 400 students filled University Hall from the morning until 5 a.m. the next day, when police broke...
...Grant's sudden greatness, his rising to the occasion, and the brutality of his greatness, what might be called the bloody abstraction of it. It was as if Grant had rescinded some logic of cause and effect. Lincoln's best generals failed: refulgent characters like George McClellan and "Fighting Joe" Hooker, who would not fight. Grant, the failure, succeeded. Down the years, if anyone has bothered to think about Grant, he has had to wonder whether the man was a genius (his native genius hidden till the crucial moment) or a nonentity who blundered into momentary success, who arrived...