Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must maintain and increase the current levels of support it receives from alumni and friends. So no discussion about the Harvard-Radcliffe future alternatives can even be initiated if there is a chance that the outcome could threaten the present money-flow to Harvard. The argument goes on to suggest that Harvard can not possibly reduce the numbers of men it educates in any efforts to increase the numbers of women because of the two pronged threat such action would pose to future contributions. First, many current alumni supporters would be far less inclined to deliver their highly sought after...
Ultimately, though, it is the depravity of the film's theme and its manipulation of its audience that stuns an observer. That the tyranny of an individual who takes justice into his own hand excites such delirious approval from moviegoers has led some liberal critics to suggest that the film be banned because people are not responsible enough to reject its analysis. However, the movie seems to stand less as an incitement to copy Kersey than as a cathartic experience and any individual's presumption to censor the film would amount to a tyranny analagous to Kersey...
...accuracy of his claim, it was not on that basis that the judge removed his threat. At a special session in the judge's chambers--at which Dershowitz was represented by Hofstra Law School Dean Monroe H. Freedman--the law professor convinced the judge he did not mean to suggest that the U.S. attorney had "evil intent...
...Harvard continued to cite financial difficulties as the obstacle to equal admissions. This reasoning, advocates of one-to-one admissions argue, is either circular or false. Figures from other colleges suggest that increased coeducation--even with decreased male enrollment--has not diminished alumni contributions. (And equal admissions proponents have consistently opposed an increase in the size of the college...
...afraid to fail. And this alternative theory is borne out by the melange of statistics published in recent years by the OGCP and the Office of Women's Education--an office established by Horner and under her ultimate jurisdiction--concerning the career goals of women undergraduates. These figures suggest women are no less anxious about "making it" in their chosen fields than are their male counterparts...