Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because Allan Bakke's suit provides an imperfect test case, the Court should instruct the U.C. Davis Medical School merely to reconsider Bakke's application for admission. The justices should tread confidently but lightly, however, and produce a unified majority opinion that supports affirmative action and compensatory programs for the disadvantaged, but still rules unconstitutional the use of strict quotas and ethnic background as factors in admissions decisions...
...addition, the people behind the "Eat-In" are trying to gain official recognition as the "Student Lobby," which would solicit student opinion on various issues affecting their lives...
...Diane was just born funny," Allen says. "She can take a perfectly straight paragraph and read it and you'll be rolling on the floor. She has unfailing good taste. Her mind is never clouded by popular opinion, the need to score points. I can show her something and say the two greatest writers in the world love it, and she can pick it up and say 'I don't know what's so great about this.' And she'll be right...
Such naivete, mixed with the pettiness of a mind perpetually concerned with the world's opinion even as he affects to despise accepted mores, is an irritating feature of the book. Crosby's account of easily broken resolutions shows what to Bostonians would be a lamentable lack of moral fibre. However, his accompanying remorse betrays the persistence of those precise Brahmin reflexes Crosby so frequently and noisily repudiated. A man who protests as vigorously as Harry Crosby did against convention and propriety is often trying to overcome a nagging inner fear that perhaps he is just as conventional and bound...
...said some changes may occur as a result of the responses, citing the pass-fail option as an example of a change initiated by student opinion...