Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...divergent and sometimes conflicting student voices on campus are often signs of vital, even necessary, controversy...
...students and the class of 1980 had less than 60 Asian students). Through protest and activism, as well as changing demographics, policies within the administration changed and the composition of the class of 1993, which now stands at over 300 Asian students, stands as proof that political activism is vital in meeting the needs of Asian American students at Harvard. None of this would have happened without the care and concern of students...
...specifically for a Latino professor would "demean" both the professor and all potential Latino applicants is a patronizing diminuition of the very real anger that many feel. Is integration "demeaning?" Harvard's continual failure to diversify its faculty undercuts its ability to offer the wide range of perspectives so vital to academic discourse. A Latino professor at Harvard, wouldn't be a token any more than was the first Black student at Harvard, or the first female professor...
...axiom that next to running the National Endowment for the Arts, curating the Whitney Biennial is the worst job in American culture. Every two years, the dread summons to represent the most vital and interesting currents in American art looms before the museum. Its curators do their stuff, and the result is nearly always the same: abuse from the art world and the fanged calumny of critics. "Every time I award a state commission," some 19th century French Minister of Culture was heard to sigh, "I create one ingrate and 20 malcontents...
DICK THORNBURGH, THE top-ranking American official in the U.N. Secretariat, wrapped up a year of service with a blast at the "deadwood, featherbedding, fraud and abuse" that permeate the world body. The departing Under Secretary- General for Management pulled no punches, charging that some vital agencies have become "patronage dumping grounds" and that the budgeting process is "almost surreal." Further angering Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali by going public with his mince-no-words report and then repeating his charges before a U.S. congressional committee, Thornburgh, a former Attorney General, warns that antireform forces are defeating efforts to make...