Word: voided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they were finally divorced in 1973, Frank got custody of Lleuwana and his own four natural children. Last year he decided to marry Lleuwana; they were refused a marriage license and went to court. But Trial Judge William R. Murray recently decided that the state law on "incestuous and void" marriage applies only to blood relatives. So Frank, 50, and Lleuwana, 23, are now Mr. and Mrs. as well as father and daughter...
...students who see Bok this week should try to rectify. The DuBois Institute as planned now will give a much-needed boost to all those involved in the field of black scholarship at Harvard--except undergraduates. Undergraduates, who suffer as much as graduate students and professors from the void the institute may fill, should be one of its natural constituencies--doing research there, for instance, or participating in seminars or colloquia. Like the institute's other constituents, they should have a voice on its advisory board...
...Brimmer or myself. The proposal for a "national research center" was made by the McCree Committee to Review the Department of Afro-American Studies in October 1972. In its report, the Committee envisaged an institute which "could become a center for thought and scholarship and help to fill a void in quality research and publications on Afro-American Studies. This concept was endorsed by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on January 16, 1973 in recommending "the establishment of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research on a Faculty-and-University-wide basis." The concept was further endorsed...
These demands in no way compromise what Brimmer says is the DuBots Institute's function to "fill a void in quality research." From the very beginning. DISC has stated that "the primary interest of those in the institute must be research." Brimmer has distorted DISC's demands for forums, colloquia and non-credit seminars as threats to pure research in an apparent attempt to discredit its goal--student participation in the formation and operation of the DuBois Institute. In dismissing the DISC demands. Brimmer said. "There are hundreds and thousands of action groups." But open discussion and criticism of research...
Experience has taught me this: successful leaders are neither folk heroes nor mere managers. They carefully negotiate the void that separates the real from the ideal. They act as advance scouts for the wagon train of society without getting so far ahead that they are out of touch...