Word: result
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tradition which predates Harvard by several millenia: the misguided zealot. Waving the banner of liberalism, Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Dershowitz want the state to stamp out ideas which differ from their own. Raising the cry of liberty, they want the state to suppress private activities which might result in opinions they dislike. To achieve their ends, they are drawing upon a more recent tradition, familiar to Massachusetts and to the Puritans-the witch trail. Today, Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Dershowitz are trying to hang the members of the Fly Club. Who they'll want to hang tomorrow is anybody...
...result, the two nominees may be chosen not because of such peripheral factors as media-fueled momentum but because they did the best at winning delegates from all corners of the country. Not only would this widen the process of groping toward a post-Reagan consensus, it would also be the best way to reduce the tribalism and factionalism that now infect both parties...
...considerably improved. The current situation leads too many students to design the opening stages of a course of study without the advantage of useful, informed faculty counsel. An atmosphere in which only the most agressive and persistent undergraduate is likely to experience the inspiration that is so often a result of faculty/student interaction outside the classroom seems inconsistent with Harvard's sense of mission and aspiration for its students...
...scale never known before, and rarely equaled since." Yet Athenian democracy also put Socrates on trial for speaking his mind and voted to execute him for his "crimes." This horrified Stone, and, he writes, "shook my Jeffersonian faith in the common man." The Trial of Socrates is the result of his effort to understand, if not excuse, how Athens could have besmirched its good name and that of democracy by killing Socrates...
...result is walls lined with rectangular bindings, multi-colored, multi-shaped, leaving the impression of geometrical shapes--blocks really--sitting on rows of sagging shelves that shrink into the distance down the wall. Kelly recalls instances when books lose their magic amid this anonymity, when their pages and ink disappear into solid volumes of useless weight...