Word: reasserting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recent incidents, and the possibility of new ones, make it important to reassert these principles, the violation or erosion of which would undermine the rights of all of us. The right of individuals or groups to dissent and to express their views, which the Faculty explicitly reaffirmed two years ago, cannot be protected and preserved if anyone claims the right to prevent others, however unpopular, from being heard...
...example of Evanston indicates that the combination of civic concern with a manageable governmental unit can work very well indeed. Suburbia may never re-create the New England town meeting, but it could be the locus of a new localism that will succeed in allowing its citizens to reassert some control over their lives and their governments, to create a fresh sense of community and roots across the land...
...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...