Word: preferably
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Perhaps "Harvard Parent" would prefer it if Harvard were purged of certain undesirable influences, of things that might interfere with the efficient transmission of neat packets of information, of tried and true "cultural values" into the gaping brains of children. One must first, at all costs, protect our charges from the "commerce of Cambridge merchants," from the "excited talk," "loud laughter," and "disruptive groans" one so often hears in establishments like Tommy's. Really the help should keep "the clatter of dishes" behind closed doors. And the teachers? Well "Harvard Parent" concedes that "the gods and goddesses who collect full...
Perhaps "Harvard Parent" would prefer that we all perform like professional teachers. If we were paid like professional teachers, perhaps we would. But I do not think that professional teachers are what this university needs, at least not of the type that "Harvard Parent" seems to favor. I always though a university was supposed to be a place where students choose to learn, and learn to choose. A section is the best opportunity for a student to make personal choice significant in his or her own education: it is finally the student's responsibility, not the section leader...
...sleeps in an abandoned house or in the Berkeley hills, and he doesn't get sick. And, of course, Joseph has to eat. One night I asked him where he ate if he didn't eat at the food project meal. Some of the more genteel street people prefer "scarfing" or "vulching" (an invented verb form of "vulture"), which consists of waiting inconspicuously in a restaurant until a customer finishes and then beating the busboy to the plates of leftovers. But this method doesn't work for Joseph, who looks too hungry to go by unnoticed. Instead, he spends...
...French have been unhappy with American foreign policy for the last 15 years, and the present estrangement from U.S. government is just a slight intensification of that trend, Vernon says. In terms of the election, the French prefer any change to Reagan, but at the same time, no attempt has been made to distinguish between the Democratic alternatives. The Italians, like the French, have become more embittered toward the United States under Reagan, particularly in the wake of the recent Euromissile deployment...
...dialogue was less than brilliant, but by now, because he repeatedly said so and then proved it, Johnson was known as a good glider, excellent on straightaway courses like Sarajevo's and good on soft snow. The Austrians prefer hard-packed, twisty plunges that test turning ability. Fair enough, except that whenever Johnson met them in the Olympic village he would grin and say, "Hi, guys, it's still snowing up there...