Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Harvard had reluctantly agreed to lower the percentage of men in its student body from 80% to about 70%, that was still short of "equality." Many people doubted that Radcliffe's young, soft-spoken new "president would win further concessions, especially since Harvard's old guard feared that alumni donations would drop if more women replaced Harvard's sons. "I listened to the arguments very carefully," Horner recalls, "and finally said how interesting it was that all the evidence seemed to show that Harvard alumni had only male children...
Homer's barb, gently and cheerily spoken, had a telling point. In 1975 the admissions offices combined, and the two schools declared "there are no longer any limits on the number of women students who can be admitted." (The freshman class is now 65% men, 35% women...
...season, more than 10 million taxpayers will go to H. & R. Block with all the gusto of visiting the dentist. So it is rather appropriate that Henry Bloch, 56, the chief executive and prime-time TV pitchman, looks like a small-town tooth driller. He is a direct, plain-spoken Midwesterner in a brown suit and brown shoes, the type of fellow for whom the word unpretentious was invented. For his prodigious charities and civic good works, fellow citizens named him Mr. Kansas City, but he hides most of his trophies and awards in a small, dark closet...
...supports the bill, said yesterday he thinks it "is going to have a tough time. We have the unions on our side, such as the United Auto Workers (UAW), but the Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) have been lobbying in full against us." Former Advent employees have already spoken in support of the legislation...
...Kunstler is surely aware that I helped to prepare the brief on behalf of Ms. Little's trial lawyer who was facing disciplinary proceedings for his role in Ms. Little's trial. I have repeatedly spoken out against the denial of counsel to Ms. Little and others. Mr. Kunstler also neglected to mention that I participated in the preparation of the brief in Kunstler's own appeal to the Seventh Circuit from his contempt conviction growing out of the "Chicago Seven" trial. He also knows that I have spoken out in behalf of the "Wilmington Ten," participated in the defense...