Word: vis
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This logic, which serves mainly to retard students' development as even-handed journalists, often boils down to printing inoffensive material vis-a-vis the administration, or becoming an off-campus, independent publication. (The administrative catch phrase for deviant editors is "irresponsible.") For most college papers, though--indeed all but a scarce few -- the start-up costs of independent publication and the subscription revenue needed to sustain independence are prohibitive...
Since Kael is so loyal a defender of youth vis-a-vis "the riot movie fad" it seems treacherous to fault her on the subject. Nevertheless, while she treats upper-class enervation as a given, when Antonioni's activist youths (Zabriskie Point) are zombies it means he is alienated. The assumption blights her reasoning. Especially since she insists the America is a better place to live than Antonioni makes it out to be - which puts her on the side of straight liberal anti-radical youth...
...wife was suffering politically from a lack of TIME coverage. "It is, I think you will agree, a bit tough on her," he wrote. Clare was surprised when Elson told her of the existence of this memo years later. "What a rough thing it all was on him too. Vis-à-vis me, he always defended the editors. When I wasn't around, he defended me to his editors...
Hunt Hall, which will fall beneath a wrecking ball sometime later this spring, now houses much of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department's film program. Robert G. Gardner '48, acting chairman of the Vis Stud Department, said that the building's current facilities will be moved to nearby Sever Hall...
...continued improvement of Eastern swimming in general vis-a-vis Indiana, etcetera, and the rise of Harvard swimming in particular since the arrival of Don Gambril from Long Beach is graphically illustrated in the final national rankings released last week by Swimming World...