Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent letter to the Crimson, April 17, 1981. Nathan Glazer suggests that Harvard Law School's Legal Services Institute in Jamaica Plain is a good example of the kind of wasteful government spending which "can be cut without any apparent losses to the poor." He reaches this conclusion by a "simple division" of the amount of federal funds being spent ($500,000) by the number of students (32) at the Institute. Readers of the Crimson would benefit. I think, from knowing some additional facts about this equation...
...compromise for a user-fee structure is just plain unacceptable. In effect. it is saying the poor, the disadvantaged, the middle-class be damned that those who are not financially able should not be allowed access to the service of a research library. Ready reference, and recreation is all they can use. The message is clear, in effect, it is "you are poor, therefore, you are unworthy. Stay in your class and don't aspire to special knowledge for by your bature your are not capable o tasting the pleasures of learning-research...
...this year it will top 54,000. The number of institutions granting graduate degrees in business and management has soared from 303 in 1970 to nearly 500 today. All told, there are now slightly more than half a million M.B.A. holders-also known as just plain M.B.A.s-working their way up through the ranks, and those who are not already running their corporations plan to be doing so shortly...
...exquisite cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond enhances Heaven's Gate's bright moments. Cimino's most striking images of the Old West, shots of gunmen riding across the plain or through smoky streets, their long dustcoats flapping in the wind, have a haunting glow to them, a strange old photograph quality...
DIED. Tennyson Guyer, 67, earthy, plain-speaking minister and Representative from Ohio's Fourth District since 1973, who was known for his speeches on inspirational and patriotic topics; of a heart attack; in Alexandria...