Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine-month search by a 21-man committee, he was named president of Boston University. Since taking office, he has led an ambitious program to raise the school's admission standards, cut its sizable deficit ($2.2 million), and improve the quality of the faculty. Laudable goals, but the manner in which Silber pursued them has angered many of the deans, professors and students on the Charles River campus. He was told by the board of regents' chairman when ousted from Texas: "You are the most intelligent, articulate and persistent man around. You scare the hell...
...Carole Bohn from their positions as Catholic chaplains to the Harvard-Radcliffe community. Medieros' action, which drew strong objections from various segments of the Catholic community, ended what can be described at best as a discordant relationship between the three ministers and the Church hierarchy. Even the manner by which the three-minister-team was relieved proved to be controversial and alienating...
...administration is likely to regard these suggestions in much the same manner as it currently regards affirmative action. Letting individual faculty members support it in print and in lectures, but avoiding compliance in practice. Harvard recommends integration to others, but for its own projects chooses nice elderly people instead of low income tenants. Diana K. Appelbaum
...position of tutor at the house is very like that of the tua kampong in the village. The tua kampong is a government appointed headman. He is chosen for his presumed influence in the community but other criteria also enter into the choice, such as pleasantness of manner and perhaps the ability to write. The tua kampong is primarily an intermediary between the longhouse and an external political power that has no place in the traditional organization of Berawan society. The resident tutor at the co-op is likewise a representative of an outside and alien power, Harvard's housing...
...cautionary interest in rape, its causes and consequences, but whenever there is a choice between the sober and the merely slick they opt for the easy and popular thing. To play the victim they have chosen that chic curiosity, Margaux Hemingway. With her flat voice and her tuned-out manner there is no hope of her playing anything like a typical American woman-or victim. She can only be what she is, a high-fashion model, a glamorous exotic. But that's all right. Her work gives her a logical reason to display herself, clothed and half-clothed...