Word: usurpers
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...response to concern expressed by officials of the Boston teachers union that universities might usurp the responsibilities of high school faculties. Ylvisaker said, "We have been asked in to be supportive, and we want to make it clear that we should be back-up resources...
...Catholic Conference, intervened in a feud between some liberal Catholic biblical scholars and several right-wing Catholic columnists who had charged the scholars with heresy. Taking the liberals' side, Rausch accused the journalists of scholarly incompetence; he deplored them as "third parties" who were trying to usurp the bishops' power to decide what is "orthodox" in Catholic theology. Freedom of the press, he said, "should not protect them from public criticism and public rebuke...
...shade of fiery Eva Peron must have winced. Touring Europe on behalf of her ailing husband, Argentina's President Juan Peron, 78, Isabelita, 44, made it clear that she was not trying to usurp his role. In Rome, Eva's successor gave a 55-minute speech defining the feminine ideal with a kicker worthy of Gertrude Stein: "Women have to be and feel no more than what they are and no less than what they must...
...should sell a million among local fans alone. Skinny James is a sizzling blues harpist; he also sings better than Paul Butterfield, and is a master of the extended rap-turns-into-a-song type of blues. The great misfortune of his national tours will be the time they usurp from his appearances in Boston. If you want good blues this weekend, the drive to Boston College is worth the trouble...
Dean Rosovsky is clearly the number-two man in the University. Although President Bok's Massachusetts Hall staff has made inroads into the University Hall bailiwick, Rosovsky will possess considerable influence, and it will be his job to insure that Mass Hall doesn't usurp any of other people's power...