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Dean Monro told the committee that "power at Harvard lies in a sensible idea, clearly expressed, with good manners." Aside from its own merits (which are many) this statement automatically defines the effective modus operandi for any legislative body, since the deans do have a good deal to say about how much power any undergraduate organization can have...
This year it was different. Rocky stuck to his guns in Albany, worked out a modus vivendi, if not a marriage, with Mahoney-and the G.O.P. majority quick-stepped behind his program. Happily fingering the more than 1,200 bills that the legislature had passed before adjourning, Rockefeller could see many green stamps that can presumably be turned in for votes next year when he runs for re-election as Governor. There was a juicy 10% state income tax rebate guaranteed to please nearly every voter. The first state law to end discrimination in some types of private housing...
...Choice is valuable from this point of view. It evades with fair consistency the pitfalls of crisis-ridden thinking, the temptation to search for panaceas or slogans. It calls on intellectuals and policy-makers alike to gear their thinking to the least optimistic assumptions, and attempt the best modus operandi from there. It is for just this reason that some of the contradictions and evasions are so disturbing. Those passages which betray the same irrationality that pervades most American thinking about foreign policy in the nuclear age are likely to undermine the rest of the work...
After talking with one of your reporters over the phone recently, it occurred to me that it was about time that someone set down the facts regarding the Band's traditional musical effort and what lies behind it. Since the Band's "modus operandi" has always been unique among large college bands, it has been frequently misunderstood...
Citation: "Cultivator of the gardens of the mind, himself the very bud and bloom of humanistic learning, he follows Socrates in having taken as his modus operandi the emulous pursuit of all that is most excellent. We who in turn follow him are thankful that like his miraculous namesake in Exodus, though this Bush has long burned with the fiery ardor of true scholarship, yet has he not been consumed...