Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...status quo, which promotes the de facto disenfranchisement of the majority. The paradox of the "consciousness" of the majority is such that it conceives of the present political system as in its own interest. For example, it is clearly not in the students' interest, the demonstrators would claim, to maintain a Board of Trustees that supports the Institute for Defense Aanlysis, which aids the government in prosecuting a war antithetical to the students' interests. Yet this is precisely what the Majority Coalition were doing when they supported calling in the police...
...glad that we now have John Updike to tell us all about the ins and outs of Tarbox. Down here in our benighted society we have difficulty finding privacy with our own husbands, much less anyone else's. What with raising a family, providing for them and maintain ing the virtues, we just don't have time for marital adventures outside our own home. Although admittedly we have to resort from time to time to sending all the children to a wickedly expensive Disney film in order to attain dark at the top of the stairs...
...reforms, the Ed School has committed itself anew to problems, not places or activities. There has been a change in the size of commitment, and in definition of competence, but the style of intervention remains intact. The School, in other words, will remain officially detached. It continues to maintain that research is its primary function, though now it also emphasizes the training of minority-group students to lead the ghettos to independence. And there will be no taking sides. The Ed School will work with anyone who needs help. It is staying out of politics...
Harvard must defeat Yale to maintain a mathematical chance of sharing the conference title with Penn and Princeton. Penn clinched at least a tie for the title when it whitewashed Cornell, 9-0, last Saturday. Like Harvard, Princeton must triumph in its final two league contests if it hopes to catch the high-flying Quakers...
...brilliant thinker, the conceptualize, alone, be any good as a manager, or does business really want the man seasoned with other, more pragmatic qualities and goals? I leave this for business to decide, suggesting that the problem is not as bad as it would seem, and go on to maintain a few ways by which more, and maybe even "brighter" undergraduates could be lured into the ranks of professional management...