Word: opinionator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some critics may attack the core curriculum for restricting freedom of choice. In discussions both in Cambridge and around the country, I have found a noticeable difference of opinion on this issue. Undergraduates often argue that they should have the right to choose for themselves and that no single set of requirements can fit the needs of such a diverse group of students...
...HARVARD-RADCLIFFE Constitutional Convention--already bruised from some hard blows delivered by the campus minority groups and the liberal purists who valiantly fought to defend the sanctity of the one-man-one-vote philosophy--will face the obstacle of surmounting the negative opinion about the constitution that has resulted, in part, from both the inability of Harvard students to come to a consensus and the famous cynicism that Time magazine has so perceptively told us pervades our campus. The brazen convention members, up to now, have been confident that one day they would be able to call themselves the founding...
Sometimes we differed over one thing or another, and occasionally we had an estrangement that would go on for a couple of months or more. Sometimes it was caused by a difference of opinion, sometimes by the intrigues of his entourage, who had a remarkable influence on him. Nasser believed in "reports," and was by nature inclined to listen to gossip...
...group of about ten freshmen began circulating a petition in the Union and the Houses last night calling for postponement of the Faculty's vote on the proposed Core Curriculum in order to inform students of the details of the core curriculum and to solicit student opinion...
...significant improvement on existing Federal criminal law but does not include all the improvements that some of us would like. The issue, therefore, is whether to oppose it now in the hope that a more liberal version will be produced. The answer depends on whether one thinks public opinion is moving in a more or less liberal direction on issues of criminal law. To me, the signs of growing illiberalism are plain, so I think we should settle for the improvements in the draft code as the best imaginable for the indefinite future. Others will disagree. But at least...