Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond the names and faces that will make decisions for Harvard well into the next century, though, there were the less obvious developments that may end up affecting the University's course just as much...
...most obvious speculations about Hitler focus on what would have happened if he had met more resistance, from the beginning. While Hitler's will to power seemed almost demoniac in its ferocity, that was partly because he encountered such feeble opposition. Starting in Germany, if the democratic forces had united against him, he would never have come to power. If even just the conservatives had opposed him, he could not have become Chancellor. And if the French had resisted his reoccupation of the Rhineland, his regime would have collapsed...
...little country schools a hundred years ago," he writes. A believer in meritocracy based on struggle, Silber decries what he sees as a pernicious confusion between equality of opportunity and equal ability. "Not a single member of our founding fathers believed any such rubbish," he says. "It is perfectly obvious that all individuals are not born with equal ability. I wish I could run as fast as Carl Lewis...
...political benefits of such a strategy are obvious. "We cannot make Russia go away, and we are not about to leave Estonia," says Estonian Popular Front leader Veidemann. "So we must find a clever way to coexist and create conditions that would make the Soviet Union interested in our independence...
...further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" pharses--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that...