Word: systemics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unexceptionable. But they are also open to a variety of interpretations. When he talks about "one standard for everybody" in today's context, it can sound like an argument against what some whites consider to be preferential treatment for Negroes. When he talks about abuses of the welfare system, most whites see black and brown, which is not completely unjustified...
...Hill only in 1967, after he was elected Senator. Another element favoring Scott was the fact that his elevation would leave open the whip's post, which was coveted by several of his colleagues. "I got hit," said Baker afterward, "by a double bugaboo-the seniority system and the proliferation of whip candidates." Scott won by 24 to 19-the precise vote he had predicted...
Four committees of Faculty members and administrators are now studying various aspects of the merger question, including its impact on Harvard's budget, administration, and House system. Their reports will help the Faculty decide if it should approve the merger when the question comes up for debate sometime this year...
...symbolic drama whose characters are representations with whom one identifies on an intellectual rather than emotional level. She has emphasized the ritualized aspects of becoming a woman, where each step toward role "choice" is predetermined. In this light, the girls' bewildered resistance hasn't a chance against the system...
...Woman's Day or Family Circle. It simply is not men who come up with articles about what a kick it is to toilet train your child, or the ecstasy of learning to cook eggplant eighty-nine ways. If anything, women support the present role choice, and perpetuate the system by passing the same alternatives on to their children. For a playwright to berate society for its failures is generally futile-but less futile than choosing an illegitimate scapegoat...