Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assholes and put them behind high walls." This statement is not so much exaggerated as it is wrong. This is not a case of "bad" people forming "bad" institutions, but vice versa. The stereotypes--they do not need to be repeated here--are all there for people to fit into them and become them...
...sometimes theory doesn't fit fact, and that may be the case right now at Yale...
...Davis program could ever be cited as a precedent for any truly rigid, institutionalized racial quota system. For that, the school must have a fixed number of places it is required to fill each year, or else a bottom and a ceiling. The U.C. Davis program fails to fit the definition: each year of the special 16-place program the medical school also admitted additional blacks in its general pool, and in one year the special admissions staff felt that only 15 qualified students had applied, and thus filled only 15 places...
...more often than he actually quotes him), the reader cannot fully believe the author. Thus Trevor-Roper's attempt to explain Backhouse's turn toward Germany in the '40's as an illustration of fin desiecle elitism of the British upper class converting into fascism, is simply a poor fit. It is like trying to find a practical use for a lovely collection of China vases. Perhaps it is because he realizes this, that Trevor-Roper submerges himself once more in his artful construct of the mystery of Backhouse. Our final conclusion about whether the diary was forged should...
...great experience."Yet she would only advise a student to write a senior thesis "if you have something in mind, something you want to explore," or "if the process is appealing"--that is, if the student enjoys researching and writing long papers. But someone who does not fit into either of those categories, she says, "would be well advised not to write a thesis...