Word: politicism
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As a second year graduate student in American Civilization, as a teaching fellow in History and Lit., and as a former Harvard undergraduate (Radcliffe '70) who lived through our shattering Spring of '69. I think I've learned a lot about Harvard--a lot of the Graduate School administration who...
Hardly anyone today still believes that the nine justices can impartially approach every issue without any prejudice or preconception. Far more popular is the revisionist view of the high bench as merely another political body where, in the end, individual beliefs overshadow legal precedent. Insofar as that is true, it...
The American museum still tends to be an institutional parody of the robber baron's castle, staking its prestige more on acquisitions than functions. The Metropolitan speaks with politic sincerity of "bringing art to the people"-though this did not deter it last October from slapping what amounts to...
Trade in Children. The thief-taking racket had limitless possibilities; the constabulary of the time was weak, criminals were many, and Parliament had authorized payment of 40 ? for evidence in a capital case. This system of rewards was intended to break up London's big gangs by making betrayal...
"It's questionable whether they try to protect our rights," Pasztor said, "or whether they have some kind of malice toward us. We have the dignity to be politic; we don't take over buildings. They're treating us like some kind of nude niggers."