Word: vocalisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legal thought which holds that the law is not concerned with abstract values but instead reflects social and economic trends. Frug, Kennedy and Tribe were outspoken in their support of CLS adherent Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton's unsuccessful tenure bid. Clark has been one of the most vocal opponents of CLS at the Law School...
City Councillor William H. Walsh, the most vocal Independent critic of restrictive zoning measures, proposed rezoning the entire city with "incentives and inducements to commercial developers to build low and moderate ownership and rental opportunities throughout the city" at Monday night's Council meeting...
...Faculty Senate overwhelmingly endorsed the progressive proposal to incorporate issues of gender, race, and class in a required course for freshmen by a vote of 39-4, after two years of thoughtful, campuswide debate. Yet Bennett immediately credited the decision to "bullying, threatening and name-calling," by a vocal minority. Numerous Stanford officials, including President Donald Kennedy '52, have dismissed this charge as ridiculous...
...Western culture," insists CIV Proponent Thomas Wasow, dean of undergraduate studies. The fear that just such a question was being raised, however, brought bellows of protest from academic conservatives like Education Secretary William Bennett. A devout classicist, he accused Stanford's revisionists of "academic intimidation," claiming that a "very vocal minority is attempting to overpower a less vocal majority." Dismantling the core curriculum, he warned, amounted to "trashing Plato and Shakespeare...
Schickele maintains that no form is too sacred to be parodied. Schickele--er, P.D.Q. Bach--pokes fun at operatic, symphonic and vocal as well as lesser known musical forms, such as the art of performing on dried manicotti ("Four Folksong Upsettings"). Yet he counters that he is "not into a Lenny Bruce kind of humor." He claims he is not out "merely to shock or offend." Says Schickele, "I want my concerts to be friendly and melodious affairs...