Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...results show a wide chasm between what C.P. Snow called the "two cultures." For example, most scientists pictured themselves as approachable, open and admired people with wide-ranging interests. Yet most nonscientists thought they were remote, secretive and rather unpopular, with few interests outside their fields. The two sides disagreed most sharply on whether scientists had a strong sense of right and wrong. Generally, scientists affirmed that they "would stop their work if they thought it was harmful." But nonscientists were skeptical. Said one reader: "When I think of a scientist, I think of intellectual curiosity triumphing over moral responsibility...
Busing as a means of achieving racial balance in the schools may well be the most unpopular institution imposed on Americans since Prohibition. Nevertheless, some U.S. communities have obediently−if not happily−accepted busing as part of the law of the land and carried it out peacefully. Last week in Stockton, Calif., for example, under a court order, 1,500 pupils were bused across town to three high schools without visible opposition or incidents. At the same time, in Charlotte, N.C., 23,000 students−fully one-third of the public school enrollment−were being bused...
...since he had painted a fairly glowing picture of the KhmerRouge as a nationalist, humane group fighting for its country's independence. It all seemed to fit together perfectly--the United States had been destroying Cambodia for five years for little apparent reason other than the support of an unpopular government that was now being over-thrown by one well aware of its national identity and interested in establishing freedom for its people. The stories from American-occupied Phnom Penh were horrible ones, full of corrupt war profiteers, and the Khmer Rouge always seemed simple, proud, dignified...
Part of the reason Radcliffe has been so unpopular in the last few years lies in the ever present stereotypes of the students who live there. Several years ago the Harvard Independent published an article on life at the Quad called "Wimps, Twerps, and Nerds." Everyone knows people at the Quad who don't fit into these categories at all, but somehow the popular image lingers on. The fact that the Quad is, on the whole, quieter than the Yard or the River Houses supports the conception of studious unsociable types who are supposed to live at the 'Cliffe...
...sure as hell hope that the Central Intelligence Agency is a "badly shaken organization." If its "potential to serve the nation" involves illegally opening U.S. mail, spying on college campuses, infiltrating unpopular political groups, aiding and abetting the break-in of a psychiatrist's office, preventing the publication of a book for security reasons, murdering foreign leaders, and having its director lie to the Congress and the American public, then may the CIA forever continue to operate "below its potential...