Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These examples only serve to justify critics like Judge Leon Higginbotham, who in his commemoration of Martin Luther King concluded that college militancy is a charade, motivated by careerism, rather than any commitment to help others. Whether or not this is applicable to Harvard students, (have the admirable ideals of the '60s followed that student generation to Wall Street?) these claims do seriously question student priorities. What the South Africa issue has most importantly done is to awaken some students from preprofessional, egocentric apathy to the realities of social injustice. It is this new consciousness of the need for social...
...newly elected professors are Mark S. Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Kwang-chih Chang '55, professor of Anthropology; Phillip A. Griffiths, professor of Mathematics; Heinrich D. Holland, professor of Geology; Paul C. Martin '52, professor of Physics; Richard D. Sidman '49, Bullard Professor of Neuropathology, and Evon Z. Vogt, professor of Social Anthropology...
...Martin has done research in statistical physics and condensed matter physics...
After the assassination of Martin Luther King in April 1968, the University finally moved from years of discussion of the theory of civil rights to set up a special committee to study the problems of black students at Harvard. One consideration of the committee was the role Afro-American Studies might play in the Harvard curriculum...
Norma Rae. When Sally Fields dropped from "The Flying Nun" into Burt Reynold's lap, a teen angel was despoiled, but no one took much notice. Martin Ritt, however, kept an eye on Fields, and plucked her from the backseat of Burt's van, where she last displayed her talents--prone--in Smokey and the Bandits. In Norma Rae, Ritt allows Fields aging starlet cuteness to work for her. A sassy, kick-around mill worker, Norma Rae is a woman cashing in on the vestiges of squirrel-mouthed, cheerleader prettiness. The story is hockey, but it plays. Widowed...