Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talking to so-and-so and who is not." To those who claim that this constitutes realistic preparation for life's hard knocks. Holt replies: "The best preparation for bad experience is good?and anyway I don't want to prepare people to get along. I want them to resist, to change society for the better...
...Stoppard sits down at a keyboard of words, and plays upon them with wickedly clever virtuosity. Few can resist his cerebral variations on the themes of Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Importance of Being Earnest in Travesties...
...however, an easy election to decipher. Gone were the sharp, divisive ideological issues that had enlivened and embittered previous campaigns. Foreign or defense policies, for example, were seldom brought up. If there was a national consensus to do something to resist high taxes, spending and inflation, that could be called, in traditional terms, conservative. But the voters' antigovernment mood appeared more cautious than many prophets had predicted. The mood instead seemed quirky, dissatisfied, independent. While some notable liberals like Senator Dick Clark of Iowa were defeated, so were some right-wingers like Governor Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire...
Harvard scientists, fearful of competition from universities in cities with less stringent DNA regulations, are pushing hard for enforcement of the latest guidelines. If Vellucci's past behavior is any clue, he will strenuously resist any attempts to change the ordinance. Krimsky says, "This whole issue of the ordinance could be a repeat of two years ago." That confrontation between Harvard and Cambridge left quite a few scars, and neither the University nor the city wants a repeat performance. But they may have no choice...
Obviously I am not asking to resist governmental intrusion in order to encourage or accept intrusion of any other kind from any other quarter. What I am saying is that precisely to retain our capacity to choose, and to survive as we wish to survive as a private institution, Yale, and places like Yale, must recognize their natural alliances with other private institutions. Such alliances must spring from a perception that all portions of the private sector--voluntary, corporate, and educational--have a common goal, in a pluralistic society, of providing alternatives to public structures and solutions...