Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silence bothersome groups like RUS, which has often stood alone in calling attention to sexual harassment and other problems. The University seems to be assuming that, encumbered by size and pacified by past gains, the campus women's movement has lost its militant zeal and become a silent (near)-majority. How else to explain University Hall's headlong rush to execute RUS, a move it wouldn't have dared to take just five years ago? Countless minority groups outside of Harvard have failed to capitalize on early successes and were stymied as their solidarity withered away. Black strugglers for equality...
...effects. Martin C. Foster, chairman of the Democratic City Committee. called the election "a reaction to national policies, and the perception that some Democrats don't adhere to traditional Democratic policies." He noted that Vellucci and Bachrach publicly denounced Reagnomics, while their opponents had remained, for the most part, silent...
...chicken commenced on October 22, 1962, when President John F. Kennedy grimly etched a line 700 miles off the coast of Cuba. Kennedy promised a war that no one wanted if Nikita Krushchev did not call back his battleships and remove his missiles from the island. The Kremlin remained silent. B-52 squadrons scrambled: the Soviet fleet steamed ahead...
...students stopped here, the great legions of reporters and national pundits who love to draw "lessons," and prove trends by citing occurrences at Harvard, might have remained silent. But the angry law students went a step further--attacking Greenberg's ability, as a white person, to teach the course. Kenyatta wrote a letter to Chambers in mid-May, in which he outlined his group's perspective: "Shortly after learning of this proposed arrangement, the BLSA executive committee met and carefully considered the matter in light of several relevant factors. Paramount among these is BLSA's desire that Constitutional...
...subject, to the impersonal modern manager who controls his subordinates by politely treating them as unnecessary. Says Sennett: "It is not so much abrupt moments of humiliation as month after month of disregarding his employees, of not taking them seriously, which establishes his domination . . . It is a silent erosion of their sense of self-worth which will wear them down." Sennett concludes that domination is a "necessary disease the social organism suffers." It cannot be cured but can be resisted, made to pay a higher price in care and nurturing for the obedience it demands...