Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serious discussion of any issue, at least in academic terms, should include as many perspectives as possible, and denying men admission to formal courses is intellectually dishonest. If one of the purposes of women's studies is to change general attitudes toward women's roles, it is senseless to deny men--just under half of the world's population--a chance to reevaluate their ideas. Women hold up half the sky, but only half; and if there is to be any change in women's position in society, it will require a new consciousness on the part of both sexes...
...public's seeming insistence that they live up to standards that few other men meet. Though a breach of House ethics, the President's use of campaign funds seemed a rather modest offense. As for the maritime unions investigation, no accusers had been publicly identified, no formal charges had been leveled...
...into politics until the late '60s, when the New York Conservative Party-a predominantly Catholic faction that had sprouted from right-wing disgust with the liberal leanings of both major parties in the state-began to make waves. In 1968, without having given a formal public speech in 17 years, he took his castle-Irish dignity and shy grin into the Senate campaign. To everyone's surprise, he rolled up 17% of the vote...
Whether at a small dinner party or a formal campaign appearance, Moynihan is always on. Inflection and voice register change like a barometer in the monsoon season. Two long index fingers simultaneously punch holes in the issue of the moment. Or he puts on his leprechaun's phiz to explain pragmatism with a parable from Gulliver's Travels, recalling the Lilliputians who signified political faction by the height of heels and others who fought over opening the big end or the little end of a boiled egg. "Happy is the political society," he concludes with obvious delight, "whose...
...most important of the Harvard-Washington connections are not necessarily formal ones. As former President Nathan M. Pusey '28 observed in his 1965 report to the University...