Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman, however, recent action by the Kirkland House Masters, Donald and Cathy Pfister, and Athletic Director, Jack Reardon, to discourage freshperson athletes from choosing Kirkland was a welcome and refreshing effort on their part to diversify the social atmosphere for Kirkland residents so that it might compare with the ideal diversity desired for the Harvard academic community as a whole...
...would eradicate unappreciated stereotyping of athletes within Kirkland House and the University as a whole. More importantly, such a stance, by refusing to hide detrimental discriminatory elements behind legitimate guises, would advance the University's progress towards its goal of creating and maintaning an ideal--educational and tolerant--social atmosphere for all of its undergraduates...
...inherited" from her father. This air of Oscar as family retainer does not last long. He wins millions in the national football pool, retires and asks Rachel if she would be good enough to guide their placid daughter in the ways of modern womanhood. The shift in social distinction is subtle but apparent: Rachel may be hard-nosed and independent, but whether or not she notices, she has been cast as the governess...
Televangelist Robertson reached in another direction, toward alienated social conservatives who yearn for a counterrevolution against "secular humanism." His minions had enough zeal and savvy to take over local party cells in some regions where flaccid G.O.P. regulars slept. But Robertson proved to be so reckless and ineffective a campaigner that his message was never tested amid a blizzard of controversy. Among registered Republicans surveyed last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 58% had a generally unfavorable impression of Robertson...
...then our former skittishness has presumed that latent in America's cheerful pluralistic soul lies a hot well of anti-Semitic bile, waiting to shoot into a geyser. There's no sure way of telling. In social terms, the eruption of that sort of hatred could be ugly, violent, divisive. In practical terms, blatant anti-Semitism could result in a withdrawal of American tax dollars, leaving the nation that made a garden from a desert as vulnerable to its enemies as a flipped turtle...