Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disillusion. Still, Reagan is fighting, smiling. His standing with his people is edging up a bit. There will be dining and toasting and travel, a just rite of exit. But the power is palpably fading. It is being gathered up in strange little places like Greenfield, Iowa, where the latter-day populist Jesse Jackson tramps through the cornfields, and Campton, N.H., where Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis sounds native...
...minority student in the position of being an intellectual diversion for others. Like the Foreign Cultures requirement in the Core, the minority student is programmed into the educational equation as just another variable to broaden the horizons of the average law school or Wall Street-bound undergraduate. The latter purpose of diversity demands that Black students absorb the ethos of the school and find a place within the Harvard tradition...
...McIlwain history of political theory was, from the Department of Government, drew enormous crowds and enjoyed a marvellous reputation. I took McIlwain's course for credit, not the course on the Soviet Union, taught by Walsh and Sweeezy. I have a strong sense that the content of that latter course, if offered today, would look like a parody of scholarship and be just a laugher. I have an equally strong hunch that what McIlwain had to say in the 1930s would still be well worth listening to in the 1980s...
Fashioning himself a latter-day Oscar Wilde, Orton's artistic goal is nattily summed up in the picture's title. Taken from an uncompleted Orton script, it states exactly what Orton wanted to give his audience in plays such as Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot and What the Butler Saw. Through shock, Orton sought to shake up British society. We are given a hint of the stuffy British upbringing Orton received, but too little a taste of Orton's literary product. A snatch of dialogue here or there doesn't convey the playwright's reputed genius. We have to take...
Terrier Coach Stewart MacDonald agreed with the latter part of Townley's statement...