Word: reasserted
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...Hill was no longer on his side. He reacted with suspicion to every move made by the Dean of the Faculty, McGeorge Bundy (whose family tree abounds in Lowells, Putnams, and other Beacon Hill familiars.), and acted as Dean himself for a year after Bundy's resignation, attempting to reassert his control. It is no accident that no Harvard graduate, indeed, no Easterner, has acted as Dean since Bundy left. Today, no major dean in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is a Harvard graduate, and not one dean of any graduate faculty attended Harvard College. Pusey has imported...
...hand, it represented the response to a problem which American skills, including technology, might actually solve, unlike the immensely more elusive problems of race prejudice or the war in Viet Nam. On the other hand, it represented a creeping disillusionment with technology, an attempt by individuals to reassert control over machine civilization. In 1970, the abuses were real enough. Last summer the dangers of dirty air were dramatized by the smog that shrouded most of the Eastern Seaboard for days. After a nationwide sampling, the Bureau of Water Hygiene reported that 5% of the water was contaminated...
...parents recover Khadija, no longer in negotiable condition, and immediately plunge into hilarious legal struggles to reassert her virginity. To their astonishment, they discover that the girl still has suitors. In fact, by the book's end, Omar is counting up the dowry. The wedding ritual is complete with the virgin's epithalamium-the book's title...
...policy committee hopes the reorganization into fewer shops will reassert the School's aim of producing "educational clinicians" skilled in both theoretical and practical approaches to education. "A clinician," Sizer said, "is a master craftsman, but in a setting which is itself in a state of change...
Rossellini in the shadows, Alice-in-Wonderland aghast with mock horror. He follows Louis's lead, loosening his camera to the dervishes of baroque pageantry, treating his subject with an iconic, reverential frontality. Only at the very end does he reassert himself. We see Louis at last in private. Suddenly the film is thrown back on the chaos of its own beginning. We see the spectre of Louis's future in the dying Mazarin. We see that even the Machiavellian Louis cannot escape the clutches of his own deceit. That his philosophy is made feasible only by what it ignores...