Word: marchese
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These protests began in 1972 when 34 studentsoccupied Massachusetts Hall to force theUniversity to divest from South Africa. The issueresurfaced again in 1978 when more than, 1,000students participated in rallies, marches andblockades of administrative buildings.
Springtime at Harvard has become a traditional time for protests and marches to support diversity, and this year was no exception.
For some reason, America is obsessed with stories of the outre. Consumers of the news media have developed a "Beavis and Butthead" mentality. They watch from their living room sofas as the world marches by on their television screens. They love to ridicule the things they see and mutter asinine...
The danger of The Book of Virtues is only that children will think it has a taste of medicinal worthiness. That would be too bad. It is full of stirring things the adult half-remembers and lovely oddments (Thomas A. Edison's diary in which he records that he was...
Science marches on. Or does it? The whole affair is uncomfortably reminiscent -- as the scientists admit -- of the 1960s, when researchers theorized that carriers of an extra Y, or male, chromosome were predisposed to criminality, or of earlier attempts to read character from the bumps on people's skulls. As...