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...really want to increase con- tact with greater Cambridge...and with Blackstudents on campus," Goodwyn adds. "We're planninga newsletter, more meetings and informationalthings...

Author: By H. NICOLE Lee, | Title: Frosh Take Over Reins of BSA | 5/20/1994 | See Source »

...Mahony and Mr. Marx bring to this multitude of tasks an array of professional skills, knowledge, tact and, most importantly, sound judgment...

Author: By Albert Carnesale, | Title: Thank you, Thank you! | 4/27/1994 | See Source »

...lack of tact (and timing) of this piece is a perfect example of the extent to which some students ignore the issues. I finished his article feeling that not a single valid point was made, except maybe that the sixties were over (quite a revelation indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lat's Article Was 'Insulting' | 3/11/1994 | See Source »

...common tact is to accuse the anti-ROTC camp of hypocrisy. After all, goes this argument, Harvard accepts all sorts of scholarships limited to specific groups: Cuban-Americans, students from a particular town, female science students, etc. Isn't this the same as the ROTC discrimination...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Yielding to Bigotry | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...sensed in this tale elements that would bring out the best in him. Spielberg has always been a man who likes to work on big, crowded canvases, but he has never challenged his skills with a subject so dense and dark as this one, never used them with more tact or to better dramatic and emotional effect. There is a kind of morality -- a respect for one's tools and materials and for the intelligence of the beholder's eye -- in the craftsmanship he has deployed. It serves the interests of the tale, not the ego of the teller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heart of Darkness | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

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