Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...especially clear with respect to the Harvard curriculum. The absence of course offerings in many areas of Afro-American culture is emphatically a matter of more than academic or pedagogical concern to black students. Indeed, it seems likely that the absence of such offerings is the single most potent source of the black students' discontent at Harvard. The lack of such courses can strike the black students as a negative judgment by Harvard University on the importance of these areas of knowledge and research, and, by inference, on the importance of the black people themselves...
Friday night, Princeton's title contenders overwhelmed the Crimson, 76-65, behind Geoff Petrie, Tom Chestnut and Chris Thomforde. The next night, in a game marked by some unusual officiating, Pennsylvania's offense and potent guard combination of Steve Bilsky and Dave Wohl outlasted Harvard...
...REPORT'S most potent lines come in its first section, on "The Quality of Black Student Life at Harvard." Escaping the traditional stodgy prose of most committee-produced works, the report makes some surprisingly frank attacks on some of the problems Harvard creates for its black students...
...absence of course offerings in many areas of Afro-American culture is emphatically a matter of more than academic or pedagogical concern to black students. Indeed, it seems likely that the absence of such offerings is the single most potent source of the black students' discontent at Harvard. The lack of such courses can strike the black students as a negative judgment by Harvard on the importance of these areas of knowledge and research and, by inference, on the importance of the black people themselves...
...well-smashed plate expressed approval of the local bouzouki music as well as the manly exuberance of the thrower-presumably well-fueled on ouzo, the potent, anise-flavored Greek liqueur. Performers measured their success by the depth of the debris around their feet. Taverna owners loved it, since they were able to pay their bands by selling crockery to customers for up to a dollar a plate. In recent months, however, good times à la grecque were getting wilder than ever: bored with just breaking things-and perhaps bored, too, by the puritanical reign of Greece's military junta...