Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were in turn less encumbered by it-paying fewer taxes, able to build on their property without restriction, allowed to bear whatever firearms they wished. The crusade also has a basically humanistic ring. For all the progress in the war against cancer, medicine's advances have seemed agonizingly slow to many people, especially to this killer disease's victims and their desperate families. Finally, the Government's fervent opposition to Laetrile, barring it even to the terminally ill, seems not only cruel but fundamentally contradictory. The nimblest Washington lawyers find it difficult to rationalize...
...figure: no wonder other dealers saw him as a métèque, an interloper, before they learned to fear him. He arrived in Paris to study law in 1890, coming from the insignificant French colony of Reunion Island. He had black blood in his veins. A vast, slow-moving creature like a sloth-though one of his artists, Dunoyer de Segonzac, nastily compared him to a giant ape hanging in the shop entrance-Vollard cultivated a strategy of immobility. He stroked his cat, pretended to doze, listened and said little. "You sleep a lot," was his advice...
Harvard may not yet have a program like any of those, but its slow movement toward establishing a women's studies program is strikingly similar to the process undergone by the schools in the latter category. Three schools in particular--UMass, Penn and Barnard--followed patterns similar to that which Harvard may be following...
...each case, student-faculty committees drew up proposals to be passed by their legislative faculty bodies. Progress was slow--the fight averaged about three years--because there was invariably some opposition. At Penn, Pollock says, hostility was less of a problem than indifference. "The administration probably didn't think it was an important area." Mary Parlee '65, associate professor of Psychology at Barnard who participated in this spring's s successful effort to get a major established there, says, "The faculty wanted to know what its substance was. They were simply unfamiliar with the work going on in feminist studies...
Questions of this sort are familiar to the schools which now have programs. If their experience is any indication, the movement--if there is one--toward a women's studies program will take several years. The process, slow as it may be, does seem to have begun, and Harvard may not be deficient in this one area for too much longer...