Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would suggest that economic pressure will find and foremost hurt the rich and the affluent otherwise they would not constantly and consistently protest that it will hurt the Blacks. Such sentiments of concern sound hollow in a society where as Carsten shows people are classified by race and discrimination is a way of life...
...moral order, no amount of strategic brilliance or foreign policy sophistication will be able to keep the peace and sustain political freedom in Western Europe. The West has won this skirmish with the Soviets but its weak spots will take a long time to overcome. Unaccustomed as it may sound, we can coexist most peacefully with the Soviet Union when the Russians understand first, that nothing is to be gained by accumulating more weapons, and second, that the Western public is fully aware that there is all the difference in the world between "both superpowers." Neither of these assumptions...
Unbelievable as it may sound, I think that it is time for change. At this time it is not at all clear that student opinion will eventually find a place in the almost sacred institutions that influence academic policies at Harvard. To put it quite bluntly, the prospects for change are bleak. How change is going to come about is another question altogether. It will not be easy and will require a good deal of experimentation of the trial and error kind before it can have a positive effect on the academic community. Yet a search must be mounted...
...summations and tag lines like the above, we are nudged into hearing now often the people in these stories banter dispiritedly and fail to connect--we must listen to what they say, and how they say it. Much of the dialogue is brilliantly mundane: it has the sour sound of conversations that occur in the kitchen over a half-eaten meal...
Music Department Chairman Christoph Wolff describes the firm's work appreciatively, saying "they replaced the soft [sound] panels with hot surface panels and brought [Paine] Hall back to its original state." He says Harvard probably did not receive a bill for the small project, and officials confirm that the Leverett dining room work was a similar goodwill gesture...