Word: unpopularities
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...read the Iliad, the Aeneid, and the Inferno. In 1966, Daniel Bell, Professor of Sociology, issued a critical re-appraisal of the Gen Ed concept, in a study commissioned by Columbia University, which was redesigning its General Education program. Since then, Gen Ed has become an increasingly unpopular idea, subjected to more and more criticism of its basic philosophy...
...reformers' main target was South Carolina Representative John L. McMillan, 72, who has ruled the District of Columbia Committee for 22 years with a combination of indifference and testiness that has made him unpopular even among his committee colleagues. The capital has no legislative body with power to appropriate funds and is dependent for its allocations upon the Congress, which relies almost entirely upon its D.C. Committees to handle District affairs. A conservative white Southerner, McMillan acts, in effect, as the unelected mayor of a black city. The D.C. Committee has long been disliked by black Washingtonians. Therefore...
...opening presentation said "the University needs a place where there may be unpopular ideas and I would base my defense of the CFIA along those lines...
...firm supporters of academic freedom on campus, we would have found such action repugnant. We merely attempted to demonstrate our moral opposition to the use of coercion at Harvard by the radical left. Freedom of conscience, especially for academics with unpopular views, is vital to a great university...
...some of the street's leading stores made stabs at enlivening their fashions and sprucing up their interiors. The results, often as unsatisfactory as a dowager in a miniskirt, alienated older customers and failed to win back the young from the flashy boutiques. The quick plunge into the unpopular midi fashions was particularly punishing...