Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dunlop, in his October 19 remarks to the Faculty, suggested a number of categories in which budgets may be pared. Visiting professorships, new term appointments, departments services, and possibly some "educational programs" would suffer, he predicted...
Quite a few of these shorter songs suffer from a common fault--they are almost skeletal compared to the usual concert versions. Many of them consist of precious little beyond vocals and a short instrumental break. And, as any good Dead freak knows, vocals have never been the Dead's strongest point. So, in effect, one often gets a tantalizing whiff of what the Dead can be, rather than a substantial a taste of what the Dead are. "Mama Tried" and "Me and My Uncle" epitomize this lethargy...
...believe that you gave an interview to the Crimson earlier this fall in which you stated that you would be speaking out relatively infrequently on public issues because such interventions by high officials of an institution like Harvard--despite their strong initial impact--would likely suffer severely diminishing returns upon frequent repetition. Yet I can hardly think of a less appropriate use of your administration's prestige than Mr. Daly's letter to the Congress...
...Harvard undergraduates. It seems obvious that, after the teaching facility, the college's second priority should be the library, especially since it is a major function of Lamont to provide reserved reading materials for almost all undergraduate courses. It seems absurd that this center of our academic life should suffer at the hands of such things as free distribution of toilet paper to freshmen, not to mention other substantial but less compelling drains on the Corporation's budget. Closing the reserve book desk at 10:00 P.M. not only inconveniences those students returning from late tutorials and seminars, but limits...
...Blacks are proportionately more vulnerable than whites. Black men are 65% more likely to suffer from cancer of the prostate than whites, 250% more susceptible to cancer of the esophagus. Black women are 25% less likely to develop cancers of the breast or uterus than whites, but 115% more likely to get cancer of the cervix...