Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soviet emigration policy has become more stringent since Mikhail Gorbachev's succession to the top Soviet post, and Jews now have little hope of gaining exit visas, the Goldstein brothers said. But at the same time, would-be emigres who do not raise a public protest suffer less persecution than in the past, they said...
...LONG as were stuck with talking about potentially volatile topics, it seems unavoidable that people will get testy at times. In a sense, we should be grateful to get by with an occasional hostile glare or caustic remark; at least we don't have to suffer the intolerance characteristic of of more unstable parts of the world, where the most convincing rhetorical arguments are those backed up by automatic weapons...
...close-knit structure of the VES department may cause it to suffer more than most departments from the University's strict tenure policy. There are six tenured professors in the department--none of whom are women--and two have joint appointments with the Graduate School of Design. Since students in the department tend to work very closely with one particular faculty member, if he or she is denied tenure and leaves it is particularly disruptive. "Freshman and sophomore year I studied intensely with one film teacher who then had to leave," says Abrams. "After that I completely changed my course...
...power," I wrote in The Strawberry Statement, 18 years ago. "You make millions of people suffer . . . Well cut it out, will you? Just stop it. If you won't stop it, we'll stop...
Thus, despite the loss which the Music Department will suffer from Eileen Southern's and other retirements and departures, the study of ethnomusicology is alive and well at Harvard. Anne D. Shapiro Assistant Professor of Music