Word: schemes
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Happiness into Hatred. In Hersey's scheme, two centuries collapse into a decade, roughly coinciding with the '20s. Imperial China conquers the U.S., and the yellow hordes shanghai whole populations to the Asian mainland. The heroine, a teen-ager in Arizona, is seized by whitebirders and transported to Peking, where she is sold to a high official and assigned to his wife as a body slave...
...more influential, but probably more easily appeased of the dissident groups will be the freshmen, who want greater representation in any undergraduate government scheme. It was essentially the overwhelming 431-90 freshman vote against the referendum that killed...
...controversy and survived. Perhaps he succeeded because he was a supremely practical administrator concerned with getting a job done, attentive to down-to-earth detail, indifferent to dogma. "The short and sure road to despair and surrender is this," he wrote, "to believe that there is, somewhere, a scheme of things that will eliminate conflict, struggle, stupidity, cupidity, personal jealousy. The idea of Utopia is mischievous. as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is bom pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward...
Regardless of the occupant, Hayes said that the renewal approach would give the City necessary controls over the Yards' development. According to this scheme all plans would have to be approved by the Redevelopment Authority...
...requirements with inappropriate courses. Selectivity would be hard to effect for both political reasons--it would be ticklish business to shunt aside any department's introductory course--and philosophical ones--to exclude some courses and not others would involve establishing criteria for decision which no advocates of the distribution scheme are willing to set forth...