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Although graduate students held some annual social events for minorities. "There is no setting for serious dialogue on issues of concern to Blacks," said first-year Government student Michael Dawson of the original impetus for the project...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: DuBois Colloquium | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...adds, would be the prime opportunity to hit back. A weekend sweep might just be the impetus for a drive to the Crimson's first-ever Ivy title, he concludes...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Uncle Frank Wants You | 1/6/1984 | See Source »

Zuckerman's desire to embrace humanity and combat stultifying forces continues to provide him with a source of artistic inspiration. He spends most of his time attacking the self-righteous hypocrisy of his foes, with much of the impetus for this feeling of inadequacy-and likely Roth's own self doubt-stemming from a welcome maturity in both character and author. Where once Roth's protagonists enjoyed a vicarious thrill while rebelling against religious and social mores, the rebellion seems to have lost much of its childish force...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Maturing Slowly | 12/15/1983 | See Source »

...desire, as one Yale planner says, "to preserve the integity of The Game and yet increase it" was similarly the impetus for the oversized game ticket, also designed by Garland...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: The making of the 100th Game | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...positive working relationship with his country, he might very well be leading Grenada on a moderate leftist course today, supported by some to the light he had previously spurned. Instead, the myopic U.S. policy squashed whatever hope there was for a center-left government in Grenada, and gave impetus to the more extreme Marxists who overthrew Bishop. Such criticism of past U.S. foreign policy mistakes may be irrelevant for the present problem in Grenada, but it should serve as a powerful warning to avoid similar blunders elsewhere in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Out of Grenada Now | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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