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...council majority to the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). The school board will include three liberals and three conservatives, a change from the previous 4-2 CCA majority. The mayor, to be chosen from among the city councilors, will serve as the seventh member, determining the committee's political slant...
Changed is the activist political slant of the old Forum, which Amey DeFriez, chairman of Radcliffe's Board of Trustees, had said did not reflect "the proper role of Radcliffe." Changed is the Forum's orientation toward feminism, toward working women in the community or on Harvard's payroll. Changed also are the demands and concerns of Radcliffe students...
Said she: "I can tell when he walks in the door, by the slant of his shoulders and the way he's holding his head, that...
...began work in 1977 under the chairmanship of Henry C. Meadow, dean for planning and special projects in the Faculty of Medicine, and which, according to executive director Stephen H. Atkinson '67, has always put the goal of serving the public before that of financing the University. "The whole slant of the patent committee and particularly Meadow was been that we are doing this because we have an obligation to do so," Atkinson says...
...they know what they were doing when they inserted a particularly offensive quasi-Oriental song and dance into their show? "Singapore Sue" (She's so soft and gentle/She's my favorite Oriental) plays on thirties fantasies about sinister Orientals: the pantomime that accompanies the song portrays a wicked slant-eyed madam shanghaiing girls to work in her brothel, where they lure Occidental sailors to their doom. The Depression was racist as well as naive, in the view Dames at Sea presents, and the former attribute is not particularly laughable. After the Asian-American Association protested a similarly offensive stereotype...