Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael McGean, secretary of the alumni council, said yesterday that "most of the alumni tend to be conservative when it comes to their alma mater, and resist change...
...because we always end up having to defend. If your House lacked physical facilities, geographic proximity, and most of all, respectability within the Harvard/Radcliffe housing system--if the only things that made living in your House worthwhile were the 1:1 and four-class environment--wouldn't you resist any attempt to take these things away from you? If the goal is to correct misimpressions about the Quad and to improve its popularity, does it make sense to take away our closest link to Yard freshmen--that is, our own freshmen--and to take away our one university (95%) desired...
...first days on the job). Most probably, she will attempt to apply her clear-as-mud mandate to such matters as wheat sales, export taxes and passports. But even some State Department officials concede that in their domain consumer concerns are abstract at best and entrenched bureaucrats will probably resist consumerist encroachments on their powers...
...Kesey's book the reader was bludgeoned into taking McMurphy's side because the asylum doctors were insufferable authority-figures intent on sadistically enforcing their will on a group of harmless human beings too weak to resist them. The facts are changed in the movie, though you're still expected to side with McMurphy. The clinic seems relatively well-run, with no sadism apparent. Dr. Spivey, played by a real asylum shrink, is rather like a Harvard administrator in his comfortable chumminess, generous desire to do good and general inability to see how to do it. Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher...
After his convention victory, Democratic presidential nominee Birch Bayh announces that he wants Lester J. Centennial of Pocatello, Idaho, as his running mate. "I realize he's not exactly a household name," Bayh tells reporters, "but I just couldn't resist...