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...last spring to argue for acceptable ratios in the Harvard Houses. Their requests were met: in applying to the Harvard Houses, women were allowed to choose among them on the basis of maximum ratios of men to women. To spread women thinly among all Harvard Houses would break the tacit promise of acceptable ratios made to them last spring...
...suffrage, the issue of lesbianism burst into the open. Some feminist leaders, warned that the participation of lesbians would overshadow other issues, tried to downplay the controversial subject during the marches and rallies. A quiet, often bitter debate followed; the result was a declaration from N.O.W. and tacit agreement by local groups that freedom of sexual orientation was a humanist concern and therefore could not be ignored by Women's Liberation. Nonetheless, lesbianism has been called the lavender herring of Women's Liberation...
Private Bias. A more complex issue is the rising expectations of government employees. Teachers, government clerks and other civil servants in the past struck a tacit bargain under which they accepted relatively low pay in return for easy work, short hours, job security and relatively high pensions. Now they are demanding ?and increasingly winning?wages just about equal to those in private industry. The effect on budgets has been catastrophic. In New York City, the number of public-school pupils rose 16% during the past decade, but school spending zoomed 207%, largely because of higher teacher salaries...
...coles allows America's lost children and their parents to describe themselves, he also stresses the importance of the tenuous adjustments and tacit arrangements that these people make to survive in a hostile world. Yes, holy-roller religion diverts ghetto residents from a consideration of their real enemies, but it also gives people the strength to go on in a world of adversity. Meaning is given to people's lives through their religion, the world is a fearful place, a powerful God gives strength in Roxbury or in Chicago's Uptown, we who do not live there must always...
While you did not draw conclusions thereon I was concerned with the tenor of your Atlantic article and especially its editorial introduction (which must have had your tacit assent) suggesting at least to this reader that the answer to (2) might well also be positive. The statement in your letter, that "while the difference may be more or less genetic, we do not, at this time, have the data to permit a further conclusion," leaves me with the same flavor. As close reading of paragraphs 5 and 6 of my letter will show, it was the support (or lack thereof...