Word: subjectively
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...United States during the final decades of the 19th century the same transformation was evidently taking place; Shakespeare was being divorced from the broader world of everyday culture." Vague or not, it is precisely this transformation--not the cultural history in and of itself--that is the subject of the book...
...component of the court's ruling was the requirement that all government distinctions based on race be subject to "strict scrutiny." This means that public-sector affirmative-action programs are valid only if they serve the "compelling state interest" of redressing "identified discrimination." Justice Thurgood Marshall, in a bitter dissent joined by Justices William Brennan and Harry Blackmun, called the decision "a deliberate and giant step backward in this court's affirmative-action jurisprudence...
...many this new demand for sensitivity is an unwarranted nuisance; it is the battle cry of the hyper-sensitive. The four-decade march towards a reconsideration of our attitudes towards racism and sexism has suddenly stalled. There is a reluctance, even a resistance towards those who want to subject private attitudes, and trivial public expression to the standards of civil rights and feminism...
...next step at Harvard, says Admissions Officer Susie S. Chao '86, calls for review of specific data about Asian-American admissions. The range of this inquiry, projected to begin sometime this spring, is the subject of continuing negotiations between Harvard and the investigating Office of Civil Rights in the Ed Department...
Medieval history may seem a bit arcane to most undergraduates, but this spring they'll have the opportunity to take courses with a prominent Oxford historian of the subject...