Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same reflective scrutiny is evident in his policy towards his public pronouncements. As his new book Beyond the Ivory Tower argues, he believes institutions should shun collective statements he seems highly critical of those who fail to evaluate issues completely. For instance, he rejects as simpleminded others criticism that the Corporation. Harvard's equivalent of a board of directors cannot adequately represent the entire University because it is composed solely of white males. Launching Corporation actions during the last decade he observes that since 1970 the University has adopted sex-blind admissions and financial aid policies instituted full athletic opportunities...
...casually buy ten books." Industry experts predict that by 1990 more than half of all books will originate in soft-cover-a situation that prevails in Europe today. And many of the hard-cover editions will be mere tokens, published in small amounts for libraries, for reviewers who shun paperbacks-and as a boost for authors' egos...
...June could lay far better claim to being more than sheltered rich kids. The notion of "separate but equal" has no standing in the world of Harvard Houses. In that world, the biggest losers are those undergraduates--white or Black, athlete or scholar, public or private school graduate--who shun contact with those who are different...
...Petty, a Minneapolis sportswriter, was instrumental in persuading Bob to shun the Big Ten and give Harvard a try. All around the country Harvard alums like Petty were on the recruiting trail, enlisting America's young athletes to fight for the Crimson. The recruiters had little to counterbalance the Big Ten schools' offers of scholarships, except "a Harvard education." But apparently that was enough...
...Orthodox Judaism, a woman's place is usually in the home. And all branches of Judaism tend to shun the high-pressure appeals used by today's Protestant TV preachers. By rights, then, Esther Jungreis, tiny, intense Orthodox Jewish revivalist from Long Island, should not be in business...