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Even after dealing with the lack of courses, teachers, student interest and the differences in tactics, there is still the administration to face. Although, as Orgel says, "No one is willing to say they're against women's studies," their attitude towards an organized concentration is at best lukewarm. Alberta Arthurs, acting dean of freshmen, says, "A separate women's studies departments seems to be less useful and significant in the long run than courses within various existing departments and concentrations through the usual channels of special majors...

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett, | Title: A New Issue Rears Its Radical Head: Should There Be Women's Studies at Harvard? | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...musician turns out to be John Klemmer, the album's called Barefoot Ballet and the devotee's cradling a bottle of lukewarm wine and curled up on a red plastic sit-sack. You've never seen any of them before but the music brightens the small hours...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: JAZZ | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

Among the delegates who actually saw Carter close up in New York last week, most skeptics seemed ready to be converted. Still, significant numbers of Democrats are lukewarm about him and cannot be taken for granted. Several of Carter's key primary victories were achieved with about one-third of the vote, and many of the others were against weak opposition. In a sense, Carter won by a decision, not a knockout, after staggering through the final rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONVENTION: ONWARD TO NOVEMBER | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...trenchant and almost bellicose pamphlet reviewing the history of America in the British Empire. Some say, however, that Jefferson was only named to the committee as part of a compromise, after John Adams had nearly choked on the idea of working with Virginia's Benjamin Harrison, who was comparatively lukewarm to independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDEPENDENCE: The Birth of a New America | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...volunteer organization, the fealty of most of the Federated Republican Women, who supply precinct shoe leather. Beginning this Wednesday, he can devote complete attention to California, stumping by day and still sleeping in his Pacific Palisades bed at night. Ford's own lieutenants admit that his support is lukewarm and concentrated among moderates with erratic voting habits. Reagan's hard conservative core will vote, come sun or smog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: On to the Super Bowl | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

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