Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Correspondent Jeanne McDowell found Sex Researcher Shere Hite settled serenely on a satiny love seat in Hite's rococo Manhattan apartment. Instead of the antimale polemicist that McDowell had been warned about, she discovered a soft-spoken woman with a passion for classical music and antique clothes. "Walk into her house, and you feel as if you have entered another, gentler era," says McDowell. "And yet there she is, at the center of a storm about some of the most contentious issues of our time...
Students from the Harvard Law School Republicans (HLSR), cosponsor of the event, said that they and Calero himself wanted the event to continue as planned after Laub's attack. HLSR officials said yesterday that they hoped to reschedule the speech, but that they had not yet spoken to Law School officials...
...Board has already judged Patterson's actions. We students should now take time to judge ourselves. Better to consider how many others of us at Harvard might have uttered such a remark casually or might have let it pass without comment. Who has never spoken or thought an ethnic slur? Consideration of how often each of us regards someone on the basis of race will do a lot more to improve this campus than making Patterson the focus of anger...
...Wood '64 and congressional committee counsel M. Washington ran on a pro-divestment slate and captured two of the six seats up for grabs. Two of the other winning candidates nominated by the University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frances FitzGerald '62 and former MIT President Jerome B. '37, have spoken out in favor of divestment publicly, while another elected Board member, Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) has vocally supported sanctions against South Africa...
...elected officials may impose its will on the minority, even if judges consider the resulting laws to be insidious or unwise. For example, though Bork has argued that the court did not have the constitutional justification to strike down the anticontraceptive law in the Griswold case, he has spoken disparagingly of the statute itself. "Even if we assume that courts have superior capacities for dealing with matters of principle," he writes, "it does not follow that courts have the right to impose more principle upon us than our elected representatives give...