Word: stand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three years ago, you could count on an owlish freshman to stand up in his "Justice" class and preach the conservative line in front of 800 less-than-eager students. His audience, ranging from the disinterested to the outright hostile, frequently hissed the young libertarian when he responded to the professor's request for alternative views on the death penalty and other issues. But nearly every Tuesday and Thursday in Sanders Theater, he got up in his hallmark v-neck sweater and took on his liberal opponents...
...President Derek C. Bok, have often warned that electing a Board of "single-issue candidates" would hurt the Overseers' effectiveness as an academic and financial advisory body. And this year, officials such as Vice President for Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp '50 are saying somebody has to take a stand and "educate" the electorate...
...Verba Report on Affirmative Action was produced and quickly accepted by President Bok, my view was that, at best, it represented a rather weak gesture in view of the paucity of African-American faculty at Harvard. Now, even the meager efforts implied in the Verba Report stand in jeopardy of being weakened by the faculty...
...mother, dead now to this world but still roaming free in my mind, wakes me some mornings before daybreak. 'If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quitter.' I have heard her say that all my life. Now, lying in bed, coming awake in the dark, I feel the fury of her energy fighting the good-for-nothing idler within me who wants to go back to sleep instead of tackling the brave...
That, to Hurlbut, is what local activism is all about. "Ten years ago," he recalls, "people thought this filth was just something that came with the urban landscape. Now there's a consciousness that we don't have to stand by and let it happen...