Word: tokenisms
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After compiling a healthy 5-0 advantage by the end of the second period, the Crimson relaxed a little at the beginning of the third to allow the token Huskie scores but then exploded with seven goals in the last ten minutes of the game...
...change is possible, to point out flaws in the world as it is. But Harvard today teaches different lessons. Students who want to learn something here must become very aggressive, running down professors, battling with departmental bureaucracy, juggling schedules, cajoling, demanding. students who want change can either join a token committee--on which they must either behave acceptably or lose any influence--or chant and shout. Students who want to "succeed" here too often feel they must do so by beating out their friends, by academic toadying or by unrelenting competitiveness. Today at Harvard, the majority of students, faculty...
...small enough so that everyone knows everyone, a pleasant alternative (for most people) to the anonymity of House life. The coops buy their own food and prepare their own meals, and are de-facto self-governing, with administration handled by a food proctor, treasurer, work-list proctor, and a token tutor. Vegetarians can get good nutritious meals, a rare find at Harvard, and even the carnivores are generally pleased with the diversity of the fare, although calls for more meat periodically arise (tough on a low budget). Fresh-baked bread appears every so often. Milk and cookies is a weekly...
...Friese '79, token: Rams, 23-2 President Jimmy Carter, California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., former Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty, Isaac Asimov, Gale Sayers, Norman Mailer '43. Ronald Reagan and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) could not be reached for comment...
...Soviet Union wishes to repair that relationship promptly, the best and most certain way would be the rapid withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan. An act of this sort would be a genuine token of serious commitment to international cooperation and stability. Otherwise, we will go through a period in which the hopes for greater opportunities will be very much delayed...