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...financial situation is also precarious and that the every-tub-on-its-own-bottom philosophy is not applicable to Radcliffe. As one alumna wrote to Gilbert, "I am unimpressed with the financial urgency of this marriage of convenience. I hope the Radcliffe trustees will not find us so weak-kneed that we cannot cut expenditures and trim our sails until we are sure the arrangement we are making is what we want for future Radcliffe students...

Author: By Margaret R. Hornblower, | Title: Merger: Last Poker Game | 3/16/1971 | See Source »

...Parliament Hill. "There are a lot of bleeding hearts who don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go on and bleed. But it is more important to keep law and order in the society than to be worried about weak-kneed people...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Canada-The Quiet Desperation | 10/29/1970 | See Source »

There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed . . . It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people . . . Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Canada: This Very Sorry Moment' | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...bedazzled Boston press). Brel, they would have us believe, is a realistic romantic and a tempered cynic. But what comes through his songs-at least those chosen for this show-is not so much romantic as sentimental, the songs of a man less a cynic, more a weak-kneed fatalist...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Cabarets Jacques Brel Is Alive, And, Well, He's Living in a Ballroom At the Somerset Hotel | 10/24/1970 | See Source »

McNamara also accused Brandies of failing to give full cooperation to the police search, terming the administrators "weak-kneed apologists...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs and Michael B. Mccarthy, S | Title: When the trial for these suspects ends, people are going to be very bewildered about... 'why?' | 10/6/1970 | See Source »

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