Word: materiallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Two years ago, Harvard implemented a policy which requires that Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III review all band material before it is performed. That policy came in response to a Harvard band halftime performance that some considered in questionable taste.
Such techniques are, of course, expensive. But the increasing cost of getting rid of dangerous chemicals provides a powerful incentive for manufacturers who use them to find ways to recapture and recycle them. While Government pressure and supervision of toxic-waste sites are vital, the disposal problem will remain intractable...
Prophetic literature is intrinsically political, since it is either a reaction against or an extension of known conditions of life. And Le Guin, who has moved gradually from straight science fiction toward visionary narrative, makes no secret of her polemical intentions. The Condor people manifest all the darker impulses of...
What the legal scholar fails to understand, however, is the danger inherent in her ordinance. By defining pornography as simply the "graphic sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures or words," MacKinnon is in effect writing a blank check for unbridled censorship of all printed material.
How are we--or for that matter America's predominantly male judiciary--supposed to know what is "sexually explicit" and what is not? If "sexually explicit" is a legal term, fine. But even Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart was at a loss for defining prurient material. "I know it when...