Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crux of the national service debate centers on universal abhorrence of war. The silent majority allowed minorities and the poor to bear the burden of the Vietnam War. Future Armaggeddon can be forestalled only when Americans, of all classes and races, are forced to face the same risk of sacrifice in military service...
...harder still to understand why so many of us have remained silent for so long. Why haven't President Bok and the college deans issued statements condemning the aristocratic, anti-egalitarian and anti-community values of the clubs? Why don't students express more disbelief and repugnance when their peers announce intentions to join a club? Why do some women apparently allow themselves to be brought in through back stairways or to be served chicken dinners while the men are served steak? Finally, why do club members who joined with visions of reform still belong after being unable to effect...
Last year Harvard formally severed a few conspicuous ties to the clubs, including subsidized University steam heat and Centrex phone service. But by keeping silent on the deeper issues of the clubs' existence, Harvard's leadership and student body continue to offer substantive credibility to the clubs' claim to legitimacy. The University did something last year to end its overt support for the clubs; it's now time for students, especially the handful of men faced with today's decision, to attack from the other direction. The Owl Club backyard: Barriers to entry
...CAROL TROWBRIDGE, who has since married and changed her name, the Craigie experience must still hang over her like a silent specter. There may not be any more court proceedings or painful testimony. But the psychological impact of bearing this memory and not being able to speak about her sexual assault to anyone must be devastating...
While many team captains are very verbal leaders, Ilacqua leads by silent but deadly--for Yale's opponents--example...