Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's sincerity and determination to help itself out of its crisis, city officials threw out a decades-old steppingstone to success, one that served millions of poor but hardworking kids. Free tuition was more than an isolated policy, it was a symbol of opportunity. And now it's gone...
White backlash, neoconservatism, a national move to the right. It's all the same pnenomenon, and it boils down to fear and disillusionment in white urban America. Liberal reformers, and the society that has gone along with the ideas and plans of the liberals, see crime and poverty and continued racial tension despite all their efforts in the '50s and '60s to create the Good Society. The renewed interest in ethnicity to distract from the issue of race and class, the stiffening resistance to affirmative action (or reverse discrimination, depending on your viewpoint), the call for more law and order...
Richard J. Gersh'79, chairman of the South House Committee, said yesterday the Kennedy School construction "took up all the bricks that might have gone to the dining hall...
John P. Reardon Jr. '60, director of Athletics, said yesterday, "I'm not thrilled we've gone in that direction...
Americans have been grouped and groped, had their consciousnesses raised and their drawers lowered until it would seem there are no secrets left. There is one: the slippery, quietly gnawing matter of class. For those who have gone a long way on a knack and raw nerve, there are always night thoughts of doubt: "Are my credentials adequate?" "Is my background acceptable...