Word: mr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...progress occurring in South Africa? Robert Lenzner of The Boston Globe (Dec. 2, 1978, page 14) reports that a study done by the Arthur D. Little consulting company of Cambridge shows that 75 percent of the 81 corporations who signed equal employment pledges this year have ended discrimination. Mr. Lenzner added that medical and insurance benefits for blacks have improved, to the point of equality in most cases. The Christian Science Monitor (Dec. 4, 1978, page 32) said in an editorial that South Africa's new minister for black affairs, Pieter Koornhof, has made "no less than stirring promises...
...Tuesday, December 5 The Crimson published an editorial condemning the Harvard republican club for inviting former President Richard M. Nixon to speak here next spring. We were described as being "opportunistic" and we were also insured that "it would, in short, be a damned shame and an insult" were Mr. Nixon to address a Harvard audience...
...would also like to note that no members of The Crimson Editorial Board contacted the Executive Board of the Republican Club before year editorial appeared in order to obtain our reasons for inviting Mr. Nixon. To describe our actions as being "opportunistic" is indeed insulting when it represents purely uninformed and biased opinion. We hope the Editorial Board will in the future be more responsible in expressing its opinions and try harder to show all viewpoints before commenting on any particular issue. Michael T. Kerr...
...study on football as a homosexual ceremony [Nov. 13], Mr. Dundes argues that the jargon of football-e.g., score, down, popping-is erotic. He apparently assumes that such words were borrowed from sexual lingo. Actually, these terms were used by football players and fans long before they became part of our sexual-banter...
...fact that we have borrowed vocabulary from the violent game of football to describe sexual behavior sheds a great deal of light on our current standards of eroticism. Mr. Dundes has reversed the analogy...