Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leftist pacifist protest. This background led her to work against nuclear proliferation with the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia, while on leave from HarvardRadcliffe. "I've been political ever since I was a little kid, and I've been aware of the danger of nuclear power in general and what it takes to produce it since a very long time ago," she says...
NONE OF THIS is really new. Yet, it is important to see the general pattern in what have been treated as individual, separate issues. The administration's fear that gave rise to this policy--that students may demand ever-increasing control of their lives at Harvard--was most clearly expressed in the response to the recent South Africa demonstrations. The sight of thousands of students making demands (not requests) brought back memories of '69. The Faculty and administration see, quite rightly, an attempt to erode their power to set University policy. Such student demands demonstrate that students have concerns very...
...article presents the terrifying atmosphere pervading northern Israeli kibbutz life, but fails to incorporate any political-historical context (by perhaps a lead-in article summarizing the general situation) for interpreting the author's personalized, emotional reflections and his implicitly biased conceptions of the "enemy" with the proper perspective. Feldstein's narrow and distorted portrayal of the Palestinian is perhaps indicative of his general misunderstanding of the entire political situation, a situation that appears only to him as an "unfathomable chess game...
...Crimson to carry an article that comments on the entire issue of the dilemma of Israeli-Palestinian confrontation along the southern Lebanese-northern Israeli border in terms of a diary-type dialogue that portrays "fanatical heartless Palestinian terrorists" attacking "innocent Israeli kibbutznik victims" accomplishes little but to perpetuate the general ignorance of the reading public on the complex issue in the Middle East...
...chose to devote an entire opinion page to a diary-type narrative of the 1948 Deir Yassin Massacre or to a daily account of life in a Palestinian refugee camp without first putting such an article in the proper historical-political context. A lead-in article giving general background information on the issue would enable the reader to discern the emotional biases and distortions implicit in the article...