Word: opinions
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...also attempted to convey my opinion that while the absence of large pools of minority faculty candidates does constitute a real barrier in the short-run, low pools of minorities are never an occasion for failing to undertake long-range tasks involved in increasing the pools. Long-range tasks involve recruiting increased numbers of minority graduate students, and similar measures. Nor should the absence of large pools be used to justify the absence of ad hoc attempts in the short-run to attract qualified minority faculty, perhaps by recruiting them from other institutions. From my own conversations with Dean Spence...
...University administration in the last few months amount to a grand stall tactic, or a massive expression of spinelessness, or both. While the President has every responsibility to argue for or against divestment in the abstract, it is cowardly for him to prevent the Board from issuing its opinion in a similarly clear...
...President Bok and the Corporation seem to want a Board filled with opinion-less members. In addition to preventing a vote on divestment, the formation of the new committee is designed to prevent Overseers from taking any initiative in University policy. Paranoid that the Corporation could lose the upper-hand in governing the University, President Bok and his associates in the administration are willing to sacrifice serious consideration of divestment on the altar of preserving the governing hierarchy...
...Freud, Martha Bernays, makes modest appearances early in the book as a model hausfrau, but after delivering the opinion that psychoanalysis is a "form of pornography," she is rarely heard from again. The woman in Freud's later life was his daughter and intellectual heir Anna. She followed in her father's professional footsteps and, in all but conjugal function, became a dutiful substitute spouse...
...growth on my jaw and palate." He correctly identified the cause as smoking, and was worried enough to suspect cancer. He was right; but apparently the man who knew so much about the mechanisms of denial in others had little influence over his own defenses. Rather than seek the opinion of a leading specialist, he selected a rhinologist of whom he had a low opinion. Was this an example of the celebrated "death wish," or perhaps just another instance of his need to be the boss? Macht nichts. The nose doctor operated and botched the job. Freud was left hemorrhaging...