Word: sanction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holding up for emulation the "excellence" of American society, some members of the Morehouse faculty sanction its conformity, competitiveness and tendency to define education as an investment. One professor described his daughter as "all the money I ever made. She works half as hard as I did and makes five times as much." From freshman orientation week until graduation, Morehouse students, probably more than most American undergraduates, are reminded that their education represents a special financial opportunity...
Though highly critical of several aspects of Russian life, particularly Stalinism, anti-Semitism, and bureaucratic control, the poet is a loyal Communist and has the sanction of the Soviet government. He has recently published in Pravda despite much violent criticism aimed at some of his writing from various Soviet quarters...
Just before Commencement, a squad of department chairmen protesting Dean Ford's sanction of Cum Laude in General Studies offers to tear his elegant new residence to pieces. Ford, calling himself "quite fed up with my job, girls in Houses, CLGS, and the whole bloody mess" goes off to the Foret de Compiegnes as Rusk's second. "What an adventure," he sings on returning...
...some have retained devotion for them throughout their College years--but the connection of these seminars to the rest of the College curriculum is obscure. Assume that an important function of the Freshman year is to accustom undergraduates to Harvard's strict intellectual requirements, and it is difficult to sanction these formless, lackadaisical seminars...
...quite fashionable intellectual cult dedicated to proclaiming the unity of the sciences and the humanities. Rhapsodies about the poet as the mathematician's partner in framing the Universe in the image of man's mind are among the cult's offspring. "History, seen in the large, provides no sanction for a conflict between the sciences and the arts," writes a prominent physicist discoursing on the nature of physical reality; and he claims to show even the of the sciences and the humanities to be essentially the same...