Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know as much about the subject as the men who make the news") and at the same time defended them against querulous editors in New York. Though he might not agree with one of his reporters' interpretation of a story, he seldom tried to impose his own viewpoint...
...Standing Committee's proposal never reached the floor of the Faculty meeting. By a vote of 251 to 158, the Faculty voted to dispense with precedent and bypass the official viewpoint. With only minor changes, the Faculty decided to accept the Afro proposal. The vote caused an angered Henry Rosovsky, then a professor of Economics and a leader in the drive to bring black studies to Harvard, to resign his seat from the Standing Committee. The vote also touched off a still-explosive debate over whether the Faculty had sacrified its prerogatives and principles by letting itself be compromised...
...intellectual examination and in improving the "quality" of black students' lives at Harvard His interest most decidedly was not in major structural reform. As a liberal, Rosovsky did not see the need for it. But Rosovsky was to learn by the end of the process that the liberal viewpoint was subject to more than just conservative criticism; he would also learn that in 1969, at least, the liberal position was plainly vulnerable to attacks from radical quarters...
...that he had torn down a sizable number of the NAM posters announcing the anti-Ford demonstration. Such unlawful censorship is both disgusting and appalling, especially when one considers that the basic evil of Watergate is the same: use of unlawful means to assure the predominance of one political viewpoint...
...dean at the universities of Kansas and Wisconsin) will be useful to Exxon, which like other oil companies has come under bitter public criticism during the gasoline shortage. "People in the academic world have been very critical of big business," she observes. "I can represent a sympathy with that viewpoint to the board, present certain questions, and as I learn, I can interpret the answers to the skeptics." Stockholders will vote on her nomination in May, and meanwhile she will be studying the energy crisis, which, she says, "seems unexplainable." She looks forward to getting an explanation that...