Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social critic. It's a question of the degree to which you want to alienate your audience." Plainly, alienation does not stand much of a chance with Turow. "I hoped that the wives of corporate lawyers would be able to read this book," he says. One L has already proven ten times more successful than Turow originally expected it would be, he says...
...students of the '70s was drastically broken. It would be overly dramatic to say the Pennsylvania sit-in marked a resurgence of the activism of the '60s, but the idea that students can still act on their own behalf when they feel the need to do so was proven true...
...Harvard, the Faculty Council's attempts to integrate student opinion into discussions of the proposed Core Curriculum have thus far proven unsuccessful. While publicly encouraging students to work through existing student-faculty committees such as the Committee on Undergraduate Education, the Faculty Council has also rejected the concept of direct student representation on the Core Committees, which will devise the actual courses for the new curriculum...
...resolve drives him. Given this objective, Padre, Padrone emerges as a stunning achievement. Ultimately, Gavino Ledda's character--not to mention his environment--is never fully examined, but this is no cause for regret or second-guessing. For once, at least, slighting the whole for an isolated part has proven wise...
...conceivable that the bank stock sale was a purely financial decision. But if the University decided to unload bank stock that had proven to be more trouble than it was worth, it surely would have chosen to do it this way--with a minimum of publicity, without meeting the inherent social issues head-on, without having to take a moral stand...