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...suggest, the Soviets have been primarily exploiting targets of opportunity rather than pursuing some detailed master plan, why do you put so much of the onus on them to resist those temptations? Why is it up to them to avoid taking advantage of opportunities that come their way, such as the turmoil in Iran...
Streeter said he believes Johnson's proposed lawsuit may never be necessary. "The onus is now on the advisory committee to act in a fashion more sympathetic to the obvious views of the MIT community," he added...
Still, Harvard's final clubs--Porcellian, A.D., Delphic, D.U., Phoenix, Owl, Fox, Spee and Fly--symbolize something to everyone on campus. The standards of club membership have changed over Harvard's many years, but the clubs still carry the onus of mystery and elitism they cultivated for over 200 years...
They will always bear the onus of mystery to the innocent-bystander freshman who walked down Mass Ave to read dirty magazines at Nini's Corner only to see three liquor-brave men wearing hospital-clean tuxedos and gnawing on cigars like billowing corporate smokestacks laughing fraternally and singing the Latin chorus of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" out of key. The repulsion or infatuation he feels will somehow translate into his own social symbols...
...blacks, however, were much more receptive--that is why 300 of them hurled bricks at the police shortly after the shoot-out. The reasons, again, go deeper than simply skin color. Whites can hardly be expected to accept social criticism as readily as blacks, who have long borne the onus of American capitalism. It logically follows that whites would therefore disagree more fervently with a group such as MOVE when the group points an accusing finger at the laws, philosophy and politics which keep the economic system intact. MOVE clearly bothered middle-class whites, and the vehemence of that backlash...