Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure the University community would benefit from the unique perspectives and viewpoints expressed by the DBTC members. The sight of students in dark-suit uniform lock-stepping to their own faculty would make me proud to be sharing in the famed Harvard diversity, as we seek our individual callings...
ROTC and the U.S. military discriminate on the basis of religion. A 1986 Supreme Court decision denied the rights of an ordained rabbi to wear a yarmulke while in uniform. The plaintiff had entered the Air Force in accordance with the rules of the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program, a doctoral version of ROTC...
...Washington standards, a little strange. First, there is the uniform draped with gold braid he insists on wearing. Before he became famous, it prompted people at airports to pile him with baggage and ask what time the flight was leaving. Then there is the big, clunky hearing aid that he takes out and fusses with right in the middle of a conversation, as if it were a pipe, and the canvas tote he uses as a briefcase, and his habit of loudly cracking his knuckles. On top of that there are the Old Testament beard and the preacher's voice...
...13th Surgeon General, whose second term runs through the end of the year, almost never got a chance to don a uniform. When Koop, a retired pediatric surgeon, and his wife Betty moved to Georgetown in early 1981 to await his confirmation, they became proof of the old saw that if you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog. The process, expected to take a few days, turned into nine nightmarish months of name-calling and personal attacks, as liberals stalled his confirmation. He was called a right-wing crank, a prolife nut, a religious zealot, inexperienced, Dr. Unqualified...
...session in Mapplethorpe's loft lasted only about an hour, but it filled the studio with powerful, unspoken emotions. Koop, a strapping man in uniform, seemed the epitome of physical strength. Mapplethorpe, pale, coughing and looking emaciated, moved about in obvious pain as he worked. "It was a poignant experience to have my picture taken by a man dying of a disease that I've spent so much time trying to educate the public about," recalls Koop...