Word: stiff
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...GARY P. STIFF II Denver...
Second. Monro feels language is of utmost importance: the problem is "more rhetorical than real." Language is at present "too stiff for proper analysis and statement of what is in fact going on. There is a need to put this thing down and get it right; when people put things to language, they control them. Then they can move on to something else." The "racism in reverse" argument about which Anochie complained typify this lack of communication. "If I had a group here that behaved like Mississippi racists," Monro says, "that would be one thing...
...Medical School faculty has discussed this report at monthly meetings throughout the year. The recommendations have met with stiff opposition from hospital doctors who teach the two clinical years, and from professors who fear the loss of power and autonomy by the departments. Other faculty claim that the Medical School, as a professional school, should not attempt to offer the flexibility of an academic graduation education. The subcommittee report, if not delayed indefinitely, might emerge from the faculty in a watered-down form which would institute meaningless changes. Attempts at reform by small groups of students and faculty seem stifled...
Harvard's junior varsity is the most likely to meet a Yale challenge. The Crimson freshman heavies, undefeated and the Eastern champs, are not likely to face stiff opposition...
Cast of Characters. It may be little compensation to those stuck with Andreas' 319,000 shares-worth $1.621 each at last week's closing-but the Pentron perpetrators face stiff raps if convicted. Prison terms and fines could go as high as 99 years and $120,000 each for Andreas, Rolland and Furla, 97 years and $110,000 for Heischuber and Trombona, and five years and $10,000 for Ness...