Word: rashness
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...sees his role as a modulating one. He is reluctant to press for his own proposals because he feels guilty about using his age and position to influence the students. Instead, he ends up obstructing things. He constantly opts for more delay to "protect" the students from doing anything rash. In the end, nothing gets done...
Unlike France, thinks Rees, England has lacked a novelist of the stature of Proust to make the homme-femme a credible figure in English society. Nor does he expect a rash of revelations to follow his disclosure. "This is a frightfully sensitive subject," he says, "and those people who are most able to say are the least likely to do so." Rees insists he is not mounting an attack on homosexuality as such. "I want simply to know how important it was and what influence it did have." He is moderately encouraged by the fact that the form the current...
That's the only break Harvard got. B.U., dragged down to fifth by a rash of mid-winter upsets, is, by any subjective analysis, the second best team in the East...
...most hopeful aspect about the rash of public strikes is that they have injected new and sorely needed urgency into the search for solutions. Investigation proceeds in a wide range. Some suggestions have been heard that existing strike penalties are not severe enough to deter strikes and should be increased. Advocates of this position refer to the example of John L. Lewis' 1946 coal miners' walkout, in which a $700,000 fine, imposed by the U.S. Government, effectively throttled the strike...
HIGH SCHOOLS Teen-Agers on the Rampage A rash of violence, most of it racial, is spreading among high schools from California to Maine. Last week police patrolled high schools in New Haven, Conn., to prevent a revival of fist-swing ing, china-shattering riots that had erupted in the cafeterias of two schools the week before, disrupting classes and causing 30 arrests. About the same time, most of the 2,372 students of Chicago's predominantly Negro Dunbar Vocational High rallied in the streets, stopped traffic, threw rocks at cars; many abandoned classes...