Word: presented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee is responsible for gathering funds for professorships, establishing an office of women's studies, and encouraging the development of courses. Present efforts have been directed toward the incorporation of women's studies into the Core curriculum next year, Tillinghast said...
CRITICS of the Shah, American imperialism and the CIA present the 1953 coup as the result of the agency's effort alone. The Shah saw it as a spontaneous movement on the part of the people. The truth lies between the two. Roosevelt certainly played an invaluable coordinating role (and the Shah rewarded him for it by taking him on a skiing holiday, all expenses paid, every year since the coup). The CIA provided money to buy the loyalty of the crowd and beyond this furnished the most important element of all for those loyal to the Shah--confidence that...
...adept at balancing America against Russia, hinting that he might at any time sign treaties with the Soviets. As a secret CIA National Intelligence Estimate phrased it in 1961: "a continuing problem for the U.S. will be how to give the Shah sufficient support to preserve his present pro-Western policy without encouraging excessive demands for aid." With the massive oil deposits and valuable intelligence sites made available in Iran growing in importance the U.S. came to exert little pressure for reform and the Shah became less and less susceptible...
...full acceptance of the house guideline, "helping people gain control over their own lives," illustrates the present attitude of co-operation and the de-emphasis of ideology. A former steering committee member, who asked to remain anonymous, remembers heated debate over the guideline's adoption. "It's no longer an issue, though, because we realize that the guideline allows for flexibility," she says. Steering committee members claim Phillips Brooks House is constantly reevaluating its programs...
FICTION: A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem ∙ Birdy. William Wharton Nostalgia for the Present, Andrei Voznesensky ∙ The Coup, John Updike ∙ The Flounder, Gunter Grass ∙ The Stories of John Cheever. John Cheever ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving...