Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behavior of the citizens at Eagle Point, Ore., [Dec. 20] presents a cogent case against local control of school systems. The right to a decent education is simply too important to be subject to the caprices of community conservatism and ignorance. Do these parents want to turn their young people into carbon copies of themselves? Gene Wright Madison...
Party Legality. Their lawyers argue that the Spanish party-a member of the Euro-Communist club, claiming independence from Moscow along the democratic line espoused by Italy's Enrico Berlinguer-is not subject to international discipline and hence the law is not applicable. Thus the case may become a test of Communist Party legality. The Suarez government has suggested that it might legalize the party "at the right moment." But that moment is still indefinite, and the Communists are eager to have their status settled before the upcoming elections...
Williams is aware that the report is filled with broad generalities--an introductory note uses the term "broad" three times in characterizing the report--and he defends the vagueness by noting that the subject, college life, is a broad topic. "This report is a bit like life itself," he says. "Some of it is mundane. Some of it is better than life itself. A better locker room for girls in athletics is a different thing than core curriculum...
Indeed, the subject matter is different. But the difference is no defense for ducking away from strong stands. It is no rationale for compromising to avoid fights. Instead of bringing fresh ideas to light in an imaginative manner, the task force has given us 160 pages of unoriginal suggestions. The result is a mass of squandered opportunities and a blow to those who hoped for an undergraduate review that will give us more than incremental change...
...suit rests on Krohn's contention that, because the Commonwealth of Massachusetts originally founded and endowed the University, Harvard is still subject to state action...