Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real question will be, who is the best person for the job among the candidates who offer themselves? The result of the election will merely indicate who, in the opinion of his or her peer representatives, can best fufill the duties of the Chairpersonship. These other issues may have a bearing on the outcome, but that is for the individual member to decide...
Later on in the evening, Jewett paid a visit toCurrier House to garner student opinion on thesearch for a new master to replace Dudley R. andGeorgene B. Herschbach, who announced last monththat they will step down from the post at the endof the school year...
...predicate our actions on fear of alienating a segment of campus opinion is to reject democracy and majority rule. It confines student government to a narrow, bureaucratic sphere. This view espoused by the Council's leadership is already taking its toll. We have considered fewer substantive proposals (and more bylaw amendments) during the course of this semester than ever before. And most of our proposals, other than social events, have responded to the work of the College administration rather than to student initiative...
...same road. Apolitical student government may work for the moment. The fabled apathy of the Harvard student will endure most anything, to a point. But when the rare issue comes along that genuinely arouses students, when there is a great need for a body that can effectively represent student opinion, we may fail. Two years ago the issue was divestiture; two decades ago it was a foreign war, and student participation in policy-making; two centuries ago it was "butter that stinketh not." Two years from now it may be divestiture, the draft, needblind admissions, a new foreign...
...Shultz, as seen at various times by different people. But the first view, fashionable for a long time after Shultz became Secretary of State in July 1982, has faded as Shultz has continued to prevail over the more voluble personalities who once seemed to have more influence. The second opinion, though it still thunders through Washington, has failed to convince anyone except the right-wingers who voice it regularly; it has fallen on notably deaf ears at the White House. And so more and more people who once belittled him as hopelessly bland or philosophically out of step...