Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been consistent in her opposition to the arbitrary imposition of a 1:1 male/female admissions quota. ("I don't think it would be realistic or even necessarily fair," she says.) But still she is not totally immune to doubts shared by those who claim that equal access--Harvard style--is not all it is cracked up to be, that sexist attitudes will continue to pervade the admissions process. "Sometimes I wonder," she says, "Am I kidding myself, are there really scoundrels around who're going to undermine the whole thing...
...seemingly effortlessly, with the kind of uncontrived prose that allows him to affect the old man's voice. Despite his apparent occupation with Christian figures, Hough is simple and unrhetorical in his description, inflicting no heavy judgements on the reader. Gifford's unease with civilization never, through Hough's style, becomes condemnation; it can at most be the natural sum of the man's observations. There is nothing intemperate about Hough's writing, and his metaphor is artless. A phrase like "fleecy globs" is used once to characterize autopsied brains, later morning smoke-clouds in Boston...
...beyond the criticism anyone in Hall's job is bound to draw, Hall's particular style of management and the manner in which he deals with his employees, his cohorts, the various faculties and students often seems to exacerbate these problems...
...professor still hopes, which makes him seem heroic, sitting back in a chair in a neat office at a new building in Brandeis called the "International Building," done in the I.M. Pei style and festooned with flags of different countries. Quietly, without wanting to make too much of it: "I am very strongly drawn toward decentralized, nontyrannical political systems like Yugoslavia"--although he later qualifies this, worrying about the resurgence of Stalinism and some lack of democratic institutions in Titoism...
Ford spent Thursday night in a suite on the sixth floor of the Senator Hotel, a nine-story Moroccan-style building in downtown Sacramento. On Friday morning he addressed a breakfast gathering of 1,000 prominent citizens, winning solid applause by attacking excessive Government regulation for causing "cost, contradiction and confusion." He was obviously untroubled by a plea from liberal Republicans earlier in the week that he moderate his conservative line. After the breakfast meeting, Ford went back to the hotel and, right on schedule, left at 9:55 to walk a block to the California state capitol, where...