Word: latter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magazines is that they have been underestimating women all these years, and I wasn't even sure that I believed in the idea of a women's magazine. I said I thought there should just be good magazines, period. Maybe I'm kind of a latter-day feminist, but I think that women can take much more grown-up material...
Wagner's latter years in office were dreary and ineffectual, and he invited -by continued public borrowing and eva sion of problems - many of the troubles that beset Lindsay. But Lindsay's own record is now tarnished, and at the press conference announcing his candidacy, Wagner was in confident good humor. He proclaimed no bold new programs-of course. Instead, the soothing voice intoned: "I do not pretend or believe that I can solve all the problems of New York City." But he made it clear that he thought he could do a better job than Lindsay, whom...
...representatives is not matched however on the side of Faculty members since, in their case, each department is free to nominate candidates on the basis of their political views. The Government Department, for example, put up two slates, a "liberal" one and a "less liberal" one of which the latter...
...original purpose behind the creation of the Harvard corporation, in 1650, was to establish a governing board more involved with an responsive to the affairs of Harvard than the distant Board of Overseers. The latter was a cumbersome body, difficult to assemble, composed of the political and religious leaders of the Bay Colony. The five initial members of the Corporation as named in the Charter all were recent graduates who were, or became, teachers in the College. It is time to return to the first principles of the University's constitution and create a structure which will again reflect...
Bloody Arrogance. Burgess is opposed to the kind of critic who "mistakes the parade of prejudice for objective appraisal." The latter type has three awful exemplars in Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey and Charles Osborne, who recently collaborated on a book called Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without. As the selections begin with Beowulf, and include such dispensable works as Hamlet, Pilgrim's Progress, the poetry of Hopkins and Eliot, it is clear that the three iconoclasts are prepared to do without a great deal that Burgess is not. The essay in which Burgess puts...