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...there is no doubt this hypocrisy will persist unless changes not just in attitudes, which is a dubious proposition at best, but in the law, are brought about and enforced. The goals set for Harvard's affirmative action program must be substantially raised so that a numerical difference in the amount of women and minorities at Harvard finally does occur. And the Faculty should begin to specifically recruit women and minorities as is done in the graduate schools in order to raise the percentages of both of these groups within the University population...
With all the changes that have come and gone since the Soc Rel class study, the House reputations, though perhaps of minimal import now, persist. Adams is still called artsyfartsy and intellectual (though many will preface the latter with "pseudo"); Lowell is still intellectual (though with its fair share of preppies); Winthrop is still seen as easy-going; Eliot is still snobbish, white shoe and conservative...
...move without running into contradictory and paradoxical pressures and demands. A husband might suggest, for instance, that his wife spend more time with the children and later implicitly condemn her for this. If the wife is not allowed to question the consistency of his demands, and they persist, confusion and self-doubt push the limits of sanity. A mother might ask her son for a kiss, but her body language and tone of voice tells him she doesn't really want it. When he hesitates, she asks. "Don't you love your mother?" Double-messages like these may cause...
...rural areas, where 80% of the people still live, the routine is more casual and relaxed than in the city, but also far more spartan. Privacy, though still at a premium, is easier. It is in the countryside, too, where many of China's traditional values persist: sons are valued over daughters, and ancestor worship, though rapidly diminishing, survives. A peasant, if his family desires, can be given an old-style funeral procession, including mourning garments for the relatives-even though the party has tried to encourage simple cremations...
...Shah of Iran laid it on the line: "The era of terrific progress and even more terrific income and wealth based on cheap oil is finished." Henry Kissinger sees it another way. If high energy prices persist, he warns, "the great achievements of this generation in preserving our institutions and constructing an international order will be imperiled...