Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Riding also seems to answer some deepseated, atavistic urge. Movie and TV westerns have kept alive the picture of the cowboy as a heroic figure, and many first-time owners, especially men, prefer to ride Western. But such tack is not for the upwardly mobile. For the ladies, the model is Jacqueline Kennedy astride her bay gelding Winchester, while the daughters as avidly keep track of Caroline's every outing with her ponies Macaroni or Leprechaun. Sniffs a Boston dentist, whose whole family rides English, outfitted in boots, breeches and hard hats: "After all, if you ride, you should...
...segment of Black Peoples should be used as representative of whatever the Black Experience is or has been? Should we use as typical the Republic of Haiti, where black men have ruled a sovereign state since the early nineteenth century, but where also such Black Rule or, if you prefer, Black Power, has been oppressive and dysfunctional for the black masses or lower classes? Or should we take the present-day state of Nigeria, where the polity is rent asunder by fratricidal warfare that was sparked by a grotesque genocidal act committed by one against another in this largest...
With a 275-man permanent staff and a minuscule budget of $4,700,000, the board is inadequate to police all safety abuses. Instead, it may play the role of institutional gadfly. "It's a hortatory role," observes O'Connell, "but I prefer it that...
...academicians prefer to criticize rather than take the responsibility for policy decisions...
...induction is a private and lonely one. The individual may have to spend five years of his life in prison or leave the country permanently. He may find little comfort in the thought that a large number of Harvard's Faculty believe he made a noble choice. I should prefer that no student be faced with this decision; events have dictated otherwise. I hope no one will offer encouragement towards defiance who will not then voluntarily insist upon the same consequences for himself. Harold C. Gotoff Instructor in the Classics