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...this area that Rosovsky's hand, exerted through the leadership of James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, will most likely be seen. Core curriculum--based, like the early Gen Ed, on the philosophy that there are certain basic courses everyone should take--inspires the most vehement Faculty reactions. Although Rosovsky now says he has not yet settled how he feels about a core curriculum, all the statements he has made to date about structuring curriculum indicate that "yellow letter II"--the report he will release next fall on the work of the task forces--will not outline a system...
...state-wide level, proposed a home-rule petition for rent control in Cambridge that would replace the state-wide bill which he expected might expire. His fellow radical-liberal councilor Saundra Graham, normally a supporter of rent control, did not vote for Clem's plan. Although she repeated in vehement tones her support, in practice and in principle, for rent control, Graham departed from her position on this vote. Her reason was strategic; she did not want an approved home-rule plan for Cambridge to cloud the larger issue that faced rent-control supporters across the state, namely, a hoped...
What is it about this rather innocent contraption that can lead crowds to cheer its defeat or induce lightweight oarsman Bill Chapman to respond to its mere mention with a vehement "I hate fuckin' ergs...
Family honor and masculine pride depend upon the respectability of women in the family. If a girl gets a bad reputation her whole family is disgraced. Moreover she forfeits her right to a respectable husband. Slights to family honor or masculine pride are the most frequent causes of vehement argument and violent crime. Once, while dancing with some friends, a man who was not part of our group asked me to dance. Midway through the dance I was yanked from the floor by one of my friends. I had committed a grave offense by not asking the group's permission...
...exposure of Billy Hargis' homosexuality confirms what should be obvious: the most vehement critics of homosexuality are those who are fighting hardest to hide it within themselves...