Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they put on being important (try to find a southern boy here who won't be senator) are all striking. Their smugness arises not out of any feeling of refinement or belief in their genius, but only out of being part of a significant institution. Yet, when pressed, students reveal indecision and insecurity about themselves and about their society's future. Harvard students would be the aristocrats of a new society, but their indecision dooms them to be the bureaucrats of a decadent order...
...students' career aspirations show only the vaguest commitment to social welfare and reveal a desire to play safe. The shift away from graduate study in academic disciplines and toward the professions, particularly law and medicine, shows the primacy of role and allows them to retain an ambiguity in their attitude toward class. While some students seek to escape organizational constraint by pursuing careers as writers or artists, few search for a life of creative activity. When pressed, many of these free souls will reveal the ambition of celebrity. A commitment to significant work does not distinguish them from the aspirants...
...resolution calls on Gulf to reveal in its in-house magazine the details of its Angolan oil operation and its contract with Portugal...
March 22. Ehrlichman had a conversation with Egil Krogh Jr., one of the White House plumbers, now imprisoned for his role in the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Ehrlichman assured Krogh that Hunt would not reveal certain matters. (One matter presumably was the burglary of the psychiatrist's office. This statement in the indictment seems to signal that Krogh will be a witness against Ehrlichman...
...masters passed a resolution last Wednesday notifying Bok of the policy, and urging him to state his position. Although the masters declined to reveal the specific nature of the resolution, well-informed sources characterized the statement's main points...