Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news: that renovations may cost even more than the figures suggested by the Dober report. But Coburn and others see the study as a potentially beneficial, alerting the College to specific steps which may be taken to improve the Houses both mechanically and structurally. The study marks a shift to a more detailed method of tackling the housing problem, Coburn says. "What we're really gearing toward is a revision of policy, rather than renovations," she adds...
Administrators who are counting on time to calm this flurry of activity are deluding themselves, gay student leaders say, pointing to the current shift of leadership from seniors to freshmen and sophomores. The current president of GSA is a sophomore and the two co-chairs of GOOD are freshmen. Gladsjo points out that because GSA had such a strong presence on campus when she was a freshman, she felt comfortable plunging into gay politics almost immediately. At the same time, changing social attitudes have made it easier for people to come out earlier in their lives, Gladsjo says, noting that...
...origin of the power shift in Washington, Massachusetts and around the nation lies in the perception that government had stopped working as it is supposed to, that it had become a force for stagnation. The solution, the new-comers promised, was to truncate the government and return many of its powers to the private sector, where a benevolent invisible hand would massage the nation back to spiritual and economic health. We, too, believe those symptoms exist but place our faith in entirely different remedies from those President Reagan has proposed. For all that the President and his supporters speak...
...Afro-American life--poverty, distribution, questions of race and class, ethnic and cultural identity." Black militancy and other changes in political power have recently changed the way the nation's history has been interpreted. Huggins says, but he emphasizes that for his purposes and the department's, the shift in perspective has been academic and not political...
...despite her reluctance to discuss personal matters, when she does give interviews the conversations often turns to "the children"--Hilary. Victoria. and Thomas--and the difficulty of being both a scholar and a mother. "I'm always hoping I'll learn to shift gears as my mother did." she said last year. "She could live every aspect of her life with great intensity--being with her children, writing--whatever she was doing would completely absorb...