Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right to decide for others which speakers are fit to be heard or which public discussions deserve to take place." President Bok views. But even when the University itself asks individuals to speak, such invitations definitely do not constitute implicit endorsements of the speakers or their policies and ideas. If a university could only invite speakers holding views it officially endorsed, it would have to impose a form of orthodoxy on the campus that would prevent us all from listening to many kinds of unconventional, often disagreeable, but potentially stimulating and worthwhile ideas. Once again, we must ask who would...
...Forest in Cornwall, N.Y. Under a proposed sale agreement released last month. Harvard would sell the site--which was donated to the University by Dr. Ernest G. Stillman '08 in 1950--for $400,000 to a consortium of about 12 non-profit it educational and recreational institutions. In a fit of generosity, the University would offer the consortium a one-time donation of $50,000 once the deal is cut. But Harvard would end up walking away with $2.8 million while abandoning any obligation to cover the forest's yearly operating costs...
Whites and Blacks on the city council feuded for weeks before the convention, with Blacks harshly criticizing police and city policies set by the white majority. In the bitter name-calling, some whites on the council complained that the Black city councilors were not fit for the job. The Black community responded to this by saying that white city leaders better back off, and not try to tell Blacks who their elected leaders should...
These were the conflicting and irreconcilable accounts of how two Americans last week became casualties of the guerrilla warfare against Nicaragua's Sandinista government. The first, relatively neutral version, given by contra spokesmen, and the second, accusative account, provided by Nicaraguan officials, seemed tailored to fit their opposite political purposes. But the incident stirred a new controversy over whether the CIA has been accepting the voluntary help of American civilians to support the contras since last May, when Congress cut off further funding of the CIA's not-so-covert operation in Nicaragua. It also focused attention...
...thought he was−but lots funnier. When Martin turned to feature films (with The Jerk in 1979), the challenge was to transfer the soul of this character, this smart dumb guy, into the svelte body of a comic-movie hero. It has not always been a snug fit. In Pennies from Heaven he was gung-ho but overwhelmed by the musical machinery; in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid he got lost in a clever construct of old movie clips. By the time The Man with Two Brains came out, Martin's stand-up audience had deserted...