Word: pro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...streets. The agents of this transformation were middle-class reformers (variously characterized as from New York, "liberal-radical," and Jewish) who were beginning to use the frustrations of the poor in order to vent their won hostility towards American society. The result was conspicuous turmoil, destructive infighting among basically pro-poor forces, and worst of all, a rise in the sense of disorder and chaos which Moynihan sees as the problem most troubling to the non-poor majority of Americans today...
...SFAC also unanimously voted to seat a student on Paine Hall pro--Richard E. Hyland '69-3, elected from Dunster House--and decided to request the Faculty to exempt the SFAC from the College rule that a student on probation may not hold "positions of honor and responsibility...
...resolution passed by last year's SFAC asking that the scholarships of students on Paine Hall pro not be reduced was tabled at the last Faculty meeting. Martin H. Peretz, assistant professor of Social Studies, who introduced yesterday's resolution for a general moratorium on scholarship cuts for students on probation, said he thought "it would be a mistake to bring up [to the Faculty] the question of special treatment for Paine Hall...
...trickiest marketing jobs that Madison Avenue has ever faced in volves a product that is now being pro moted in full-page, four-color ads in more than a dozen U.S. magazines, in cluding Glamour, Look and TV Guide...
Such restraints hurt. Pushkin depend edon his writing for a living and, in fact, became Russia's first really pro fessional writer. But restraint could not temper his flamboyant mode of life, which was Byronic - though not in the usual sense. Pushkin's affinity was for the rational, irreverent side of Byron's temperament, and he delighted in mocking the romantic conventions of his day. In an early poem, The Caucasian Captive, he had a maiden fall into a stream and the hero refuse to jump in and rescue her. "I've swum in Caucasian streams...