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...refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of students' calls for a real hand in determining Harvard's investment policy, or when Bok and Dean Rosovsky smugly dismiss students' attempts to gain a real say in the formulation of their own curriculum, the silence is an echo. Granted, Bok is a smoother man than Pusey--as the Corporation and Overseers realized when they named him, he is the sort to rely on calm words, rather than police violence, to settle confrontations--but he has shown little more sensitivity to student concerns than did his predecessor. The echoes of 1969 grow louder with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Years After | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of students' calls for a real hand in determining Harvard's investment policy, or when Bok and Dean Rovosky smugly dismiss students' attempts to gain a real say in the formulation of their own curriculum, the silence is an echo. Granted, Bok is a smoother man than Pusey--as the Corporation and Overseers realized when they named him, he is the sort to rely on calm words, rather than police violence, to settle confrontations--but he has shown little more sensitivity to student concerns than did his predecessor. The echoes of 1969 grow louder with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Years After | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

...thing is that the offense is improving. We were able to break with the ball. We scored three fast break goals. We moved the ball better, smoother. I don't think we are going to lose on this field," co-captain Jamie Egasti said after the game...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Laxmen Top Middlebury, 13-4 | 4/5/1979 | See Source »

...breaststroke provided the meet's closest race. Pat Jakobsen looked smoother than he has all season and nipped the Netherlands' Ronald Hond by two-hundreths of a second...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Crimson Swims by Dutchmen | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

However stormy the Navy's military and financial future may be, it now enjoys smoother sailing in one important area: morale. Though there are still some problems with drugs, alcoholism and a high desertion rate, the service has recovered smartly from the troubled early 1970s, when a series of violent racial clashes revealed an armed force at war with itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: For Sailors, a Better Life | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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