Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman ranks, first-year coach Greg Stone, the bowman of last year's heavyweight national champion boat, is faced with a longstanding tradition to uphold. The frosh lights have not lost a race since time immemorial, but Stone is not overly awed by his task...
...students hope that Knock Knock has a long run, but they miss having Seltzer at Princeton full time. For one thing, the bachelor professor now has little time to uphold his reputation as the best chef on campus. He has been forced to cut back on the Indian and Szechuan Chinese dinners he cooks for his students. But what students miss most are his classroom dramatics. Says Sophomore Chad Restum: "Dan can do a reading involving three characters and never make a mistake with the different voices." The day when Seltzer is back performing at the podium may come none...
Naipaul's vision is different from Roche's because it does not legitimize imperialism or attempt to uphold this fragile mess of relations. By the end of the novel Roche's hopeless and fragile position has made him an unwitting accomplice in the murder of his mistress, and his revolutionary opponent is simply a personal opponent. Just because he reduces his paragons of imperialist and guerrilla to such an individualistic level, Naipaul does not dismiss the issue of imperialism. Imperialism has much more subtle effects, Naipaul indicates, than building slums and mansions and creating racist distinctions. Imperialism twists social relations...
...firm will now petition the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari requesting the Massachusetts First Circuit Court of Appeals to certify the record of its decision last year to uphold the Phase Two busing orders handed down by Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity last spring, Gleason said...
...yielded last week. He resigned his membership in the nearby Farmington Country Club, an institution that denies admission to blacks. Hereford stated that he had hoped to change the club's restrictive practices by retaining his membership and working from within. Even when Farmington members voted overwhelmingly to uphold the club's racial rules (TIME, Feb. 9), Hereford hung on, hoping that the Farmington board of directors would reject the vote. But after the board failed to do so, Hereford said he could no longer accept the club's "segregationist policy" and quit. Eighteen other club members...