Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long as politicians worry about the short-term effects of a sensible economic policy, such as loss of votes, we will still have our newly christened "Crisis of Confidence." I hope your article was well read, and understood, in Washington...
Another bloc the progressives hope to lure to the polls with the condo issue is students, who, since they are transient by nature, might oppose conversion of rental units. That job may be difficult: in the last municipal election, where housing was also an issue, the predominantly-student third precinct of the sixth ward turned out only 349 of 1462 registered voters. Ballot referenda on South Africa, nuclear power and the Kennedy candidacy may draw more students to the ballot box this year, but the issues are no guarantee. "Based on their past experience, many politicians in this city tend...
...provide material aid for Zimbabwe's Patriotic Front and to oppose a boxing match between the black American John Tate and the white South African Gerrie Coetzee. Rothschild says the upcoming fight "is being used as a ploy for white supremicist propaganda, with Coetzee billed as the 'Great White Hope...
...everyone is taking this policy lying down. Many faculty members and administrators continue to debate the question of art courses for credit. While there is still considerable opposition, many hope that the arrival of Robert S. Brustein, former director of the Yale Drama school and future director of Harvard's Loeb theater, will change the traditional doctrine that performing arts have no part in liberal arts education at Harvard...
Though many professors have hope in Brustein, his battle will be far from easy. There remains diehard resistance to arts for credit, a movement backed by the belief that education doesn't necessitate credit and that students don't want anything different than what they have now. "Everyone knows the arts are wonderful and theraputic, but they're also hard work that take perserverence and often pain. Then again, just because they're educational doesn't mean that you have to get credit for it," Mayman says. "There's just no overwhelming need or desire for the arts as credit...