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Word: seem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tarver seems unaffected by his semi-celebrity status in Adams House or the hordes of 16-year-old punkettes who swoon at his concerts at local clubs. His aloof stance may seem pretentious or arrogant, but it's mostly natural shyness even if he does play it up occasionally...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: And His Band Plays On | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

ALTHOUGH these organizations focus on diverse issues, their complaints have a common orientation--fairness--and a common target--elitism--but they lack a unified spokesman. The Undergraduate Council, which funds these groups, would seem to make a helpful, unifying spokesman. The nominal undergraduate representative would seem to be the natural leader for efforts for student justice. But students found that the council would not champion their cause. Instead of battling sexism in the final clubs, the council balked and seemed more interested in equitably representing the students who buy into elitism here than backing institutions open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hitting Home | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...gotten to know some of the SDS people nationally. I got to know Tom Hayden. We had the back room at Cronin's. It began to seem to me that the issues were interrelated and something more had to be transformed. I got involved with the Civil Rights Movement. I was very impressed with SNCC [the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]. This was also the spring of the Birmingham violence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: `I Thought the Movement Was Going to Be My Life.' | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...study concluded that many women fear success because they believed that it might make them less popular or seem too masculine. Even as president, Horner has continued her study of how women cope in a male-dominated society...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Radcliffe President Resigns | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...Most people don't know enough about [the EHS]," says Yvete L. Rheault, a HUCTW organizer. Information about EHS services "just doesn't seem to be communicated enough [to employees...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Risky Business in the Harvard Labs | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

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