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Word: sic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...original complaint to MCAD, Schkolnick writes, "The clubs, though not actually affiliated with Harvard, sometimes hold functions on Harvard property and significantly (and adversily[sic]) affect Harvard undergraduate life." Between 10 and 12 percent of all Harvard undergraduates are members, and many more, both male and female, attend club parties...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Knocking on the Final Clubs' Closed Doors | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...rule of philosopher-kings was both necessary and impossible. The Republic, by this account, is really a massive excercise in irony, a lesson less in how to construct a utopia than in the limits of what we can reasonably expect from politics. Stone, attributing this interpretation to one "Alan [sic] Bloom", writes that, "Plato could hardly have spent his life spoofing himself...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: I.F. Stone Questions Socrates | 2/27/1988 | See Source »

...attached statement, issued by the South African Solidarity Committee (sic) on March 24, contains views with which I strongly disagree. This statement of views may or may not bear any relation to the actual events. The Administrative Boards will decide that. But the argument that one can block certain exits so as to force an individual to proceed into a hostile and largely uncontrolled environment, with unpredictable consequences, and at the same time claim that no relevant infringement of freedom of movement is entailed, is neither logical nor acceptable in my judgement. Therefore, whatever the appropriate disposition of this incident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spence Statement | 3/27/1987 | See Source »

...Prince over the head with a champagne bottle, yelling "Sic semper tyrannis...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: What's Your Royalty Rating | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...Theirs [the University's celebration] is a bit more extravagantzavy (sic) and we don't have the budget to do something like that," says Coletta. "It wouldn't be appropriate. That's a multi-media circus and this [the undergraduate celebration] is quite different...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: An Intimate Gathering | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

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