Word: temperedness
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ROTC first became a campus issue in the 1960s, when students and faculty called the program "anti-democratic and anti-civil-libertarian." Faculty resolutions abolished Harvard's ROTC programs in 1969. The University tempered its stance in 1979, however, and established its cur- rent policy which allows students to takenon...
Lately, of course, this playful disdain for California has been tempered by sympathy. Mother Nature has dealt the state a series of blows, and Americans who always looked with contempt on the flaky, arrogant attitude of Californians have paused to shake their heads slowly and feel sorry for the "spaceheads...
Yet the tone of the novel is not vindictive. The Robber Bride is not the self-indulgence of a man-hater run amok. Rather it seeks to exploit and break down, sometimes clumsily, the myths surrounding the first generation of the women's movement. Atwood's tongue-in-cheek allusions...
Because there is no national consensus, political leaders and activists stake out unpredictable and sometimes contradictory positions. Many liberals believe the doors should be open to all who seek new opportunities and hope to escape persecution. Other liberals argue that while open immigration policies are intrinsically good, they must be...
No European nation lost proportionately more of its sons and daughters to the U.S. than Ireland: in all, some 4,250,000 from 1820 to 1920. Native-born Americans sniffed at these Gaels -- made desperate by the potato famine that devastated their homeland in the 1840s -- as filthy, bad-tempered...