Word: subverts
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...printed on posters, zapping from light-emitting diode boxes, and even carved in stone: EATING TOO MUCH IS CRIMINAL, for instance, or ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE. In the late '70s, after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Holzer was smitten by an insight. To subvert the slow and, natch, "elitist" way in which art tends to find an audience, she started writing short slogans and leaving them in public places for people to read. "If you want to reach a general audience," she proclaimed, "it's not art issues that are going to compel them...
...institution. Voices from the outside--especially students--still have no say in the governance of the University; the seven-member Corporation is still the ultra-secret governing board it was 20 years ago. Even when change was urged from the inside, the University under Bok found a way to subvert it. When activists on the Board of Overseers tried to clean up Harvard's investment portfolio, Bok and other administrators stamped out the dissent. And when Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence tried to begin discussion of ways of promoting more junior faculty, Bok proved an enemy in making...
...standing in front of them. Later, human rights groups identified the man as Wang Weilin, the 19-year-old son of a Beijing factory worker. Wang was reportedly arrested soon after his brave deed and accused of being a "counterrevolutionary, a traitor and a political hooligan" who attempted to subvert members of the army. Because of the severity of the charges, it was widely feared that he had been executed. In an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters aired two weeks ago, Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin said he could not say what had happened to Wang, but added...
Attempts to overrule or subvert Roe v. Wade have been reiterated by both Presidents, and a younger, more conservative Supreme Court may just follow suit...
While debates over college curriculum get the most attention, professors generally can resist or subvert the most wrongheaded changes and students generally have mature enough judgment to sort out the arguments. Elementary- and secondary-school curriculums reach a far broader segment at a far more / impressionable age, and political expediency more often wins over intellectual honesty. Exchanges have been vituperative in New York, where a state task force concluded that "African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans have all been victims of an intellectual and educational oppression . . . Negative characterizations, or the absence of positive references, have...