Word: strives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Transferring these considerations from paper to practice is a delicate matter, the report stresses. In choosing investments, the University "should strive fundamentally for maximum return." The one positive exception to the "maximization-of-return policy" concerns investments involving "the University's duty to the more or less surrounding community." The report urges Harvard to engage in community projects. On the negative side, the report continues, the University can avoid investments in some particularly offensive enterprises: for example. tobacco companies. South African corporations, businesses with discriminatory policies. But this list too would be very small, for the report remarks that "almost...
...seems to be about the perils of living in a violent city, one soon learns otherwise; the violence only highlights the isolation of each family from its neighbors and environs. The Carol Newquists are the urban John Does-even their ethnic background is eclectically modeled. Thus, each member must strive to serve a separate, useful social function, and is then thrown back into the family to secure personal happiness. The son who served his country in Korea and Vietnam is relieved of this struggle when he is killed at 95th and Amsterdam before the film begins. The younger son attends...
...behind him to come to grips with students intent upon acting out utopian fantasies, rather than revel in the righteousness of the persecuted. All he produces, however, is fantastic confusion. The sex scenes seem, at times, consciously parodistic, as do the depictions of Jones' detached intelligentsia. Jones' characters laughably strive to look forevermore-exotic features of the human sexuality, and the "fuck or be fucked" psychology that goes with their struggling; while their individualistically "radical" political ideologies are considerably less flexible, if just as masturbatory. Jones doesn't know what to make of a world where differentiations...
...thirteenth round. The director has done everything possible to obstruct dramatic tensions. The violent actions are more uncomfortable than discomfiting, the quiet moments are languorous. Against the evening's generally ham-handed pacing, Porter's songwriting-dancing interludes seem too clever by half. The actors strive valiantly to overcome the director's schematized conception, but only John Archibald (who plays both Porter's friend Cliff and Mrs. Porter's father) is successful...
...University, in its role as initial investor, should strive fundamentally for maximum return," the report says...