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...voters--who hate Harvard and love simplistic attacks upon college education. Pundits speculate that Bennett may run for political office in 1988. Right now he's making all the right moves: his fire-and-brimstone attacks upon liberal educational values, his anti-intellectual polemic, and especially his blind and vocal allegiance to Ronald Reagan. The American people lap that stuff up. What they should demand, however, is sobriety...

Author: By Robert F. Cunha, | Title: Get on the Wagon | 10/16/1986 | See Source »

...Florida, the drug war is an omnipresent fact of life, so naturally Graham and Hawkins are vocal hard-liners on halting the narcotics trade. Otherwise, Graham is, ideologically, all over the map. But his views appeal to Florida's diverse populace: he is for contra aid and a tough immigration policy, while also supporting affirmative action and increased health services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Democrats Recapture the Senate? | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

Most Massachusetts residents are pro-choice; most Catholics in the state are pro-choice. However, most choice supporters do not vote. Low turn-out and confusion over the wording of the referendum is cause for concern for those who are pro-choice. The anti-choice contingent is well funded, vocal and sure to turn up at the polls. As long as the outcome of the vote on November 4 remains in doubt, so does the reproductive freedom of all women in this state...

Author: By Barbara Okun, | Title: Question 1 | 10/4/1986 | See Source »

Increasingly, university life impinged on public affairs and vice versa. When prominent alumni were infuriated by young Lecturer Harold Laski's vocal support of a Boston police strike in 1919, Lowell said, "If the overseers ask for Laski's resignation, they will get mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Schoale and How It Grew | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Stephen L. Saltonstall '67, an 11th-generation Harvard Saltonstall, was a member of Students for a Democratic Society during his Harvard years and was an early and vocal opponent of the Vietnam...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Saltonstalls Pepper Harvard's 350 Years | 9/5/1986 | See Source »

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